linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] riscv: remove redundant kernel-space generic-y

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Date:   Thu, 03 Jan 2019 17:05:29 -0800 (PST)
From:   Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>
To:     yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com
CC:     aou@...s.berkeley.edu, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com, alankao@...estech.com,
        deepa.kernel@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jim Wilson <jimw@...ive.com>, geert@...ux-m68k.org
Subject:     Re: [PATCH] riscv: remove redundant kernel-space generic-y

On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 06:11:11 PST (-0800), yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com wrote:
> This commit removes redundant generic-y defines in
> arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild.
>
> [1] It is redundant to define the same generic-y in both
>     arch/$(ARCH)/include/asm/Kbuild and
>     arch/$(ARCH)/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild.
>
>     Remove the following generic-y:
>
>       errno.h
>       fcntl.h
>       ioctl.h
>       ioctls.h
>       ipcbuf.h
>       mman.h
>       msgbuf.h
>       param.h
>       poll.h
>       posix_types.h
>       resource.h
>       sembuf.h
>       setup.h
>       shmbuf.h
>       signal.h
>       socket.h
>       sockios.h
>       stat.h
>       statfs.h
>       swab.h
>       termbits.h
>       termios.h
>       types.h
>
> [2] It is redundant to define generic-y when arch-specific
>     implementation exists in arch/$(ARCH)/include/asm/*.h
>
>     Remove the following generic-y:
>
>       cacheflush.h
>       dma-mapping.h
>       module.h
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
> ---
>
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild | 26 --------------------------
>  1 file changed, 26 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild b/arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild
> index 6a646d9..f7068f3 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild
> @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
>  generic-y += bugs.h
> -generic-y += cacheflush.h
>  generic-y += checksum.h
>  generic-y += compat.h
>  generic-y += cputime.h
> @@ -7,18 +6,12 @@ generic-y += device.h
>  generic-y += div64.h
>  generic-y += dma.h
>  generic-y += dma-contiguous.h
> -generic-y += dma-mapping.h
>  generic-y += emergency-restart.h
> -generic-y += errno.h
>  generic-y += exec.h
>  generic-y += fb.h
> -generic-y += fcntl.h
>  generic-y += hardirq.h
>  generic-y += hash.h
>  generic-y += hw_irq.h
> -generic-y += ioctl.h
> -generic-y += ioctls.h
> -generic-y += ipcbuf.h
>  generic-y += irq_regs.h
>  generic-y += irq_work.h
>  generic-y += kdebug.h
> @@ -27,34 +20,15 @@ generic-y += kvm_para.h
>  generic-y += local.h
>  generic-y += local64.h
>  generic-y += mm-arch-hooks.h
> -generic-y += mman.h
> -generic-y += module.h
> -generic-y += msgbuf.h
>  generic-y += mutex.h
> -generic-y += param.h
>  generic-y += percpu.h
> -generic-y += poll.h
> -generic-y += posix_types.h
>  generic-y += preempt.h
> -generic-y += resource.h
>  generic-y += scatterlist.h
>  generic-y += sections.h
> -generic-y += sembuf.h
>  generic-y += serial.h
> -generic-y += setup.h
> -generic-y += shmbuf.h
>  generic-y += shmparam.h
> -generic-y += signal.h
> -generic-y += socket.h
> -generic-y += sockios.h
> -generic-y += stat.h
> -generic-y += statfs.h
> -generic-y += swab.h
> -generic-y += termbits.h
> -generic-y += termios.h
>  generic-y += topology.h
>  generic-y += trace_clock.h
> -generic-y += types.h
>  generic-y += unaligned.h
>  generic-y += user.h
>  generic-y += vga.h

Thanks.  These just sort of collected there because I hadn't trimmed them.  Is 
there a script that checks these?