linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/11] powerpc: remove dead ifdefs in <asm/checksum.h>

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Date:   Fri, 15 Feb 2019 18:30:09 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        linux-s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-xtensa@...ux-xtensa.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] powerpc: remove dead ifdefs in <asm/checksum.h>

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 5:18 PM Christophe Leroy
<christophe.leroy@....fr> wrote:
>
>
>
> Le 14/02/2019 à 18:05, Christoph Hellwig a écrit :
> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 09:26:19AM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> >> Could you also remove the 'config GENERIC_CSUM' item in
> >> arch/powerpc/Kconfig ?
> >
> > All the separate declarations go away later in this series.
> >
>
> I saw, but the purpose of the later patch is to replace arch defined
> GENERIC_CSUM by a common one that arches select. For the powerpc you are
> not in that case as the powerpc does not select GENERIC_CSUM.
>
> So I really believe that all stale bits of remaining GENERIC_CSUM in
> powerpc should go away as a single dedicated patch, as a fix of commit
> d4fde568a34a ("powerpc/64: Use optimized checksum routines on
> little-endian")
>
> Regarding the #ifdef __KERNEL__ , I think we should do a wide cleanup in
> arch/powerpc/include/asm, not only asm/checksum.h
>
> Christophe


Please send such cleanups to PowerPC ML
instead of to me (Kbuild).


Christoph,
I think this one is independent of the rest of this series.
How about separating it if you volunteer to Powerpc cleansup?


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada