linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: ethernet: Prepare cleanup of powerpc's asm/prom.h

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Date:   Tue, 19 Apr 2022 09:22:21 +0200
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Douglas Miller <dougmill@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Dany Madden <drt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Ishizaki Kou <kou.ishizaki@...hiba.co.jp>,
        Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: ethernet: Prepare cleanup of powerpc's
 asm/prom.h

Hello,

Sorry for the late reply.

On Fri, 2022-04-15 at 10:39 +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> powerpc's asm/prom.h brings some headers that it doesn't
> need itself.

It's probably my fault, but I really can't parse the above. Could you
please re-phrase?
> 
> In order to clean it up in a further step, first clean all
> files that include asm/prom.h
> 
> Some files don't need asm/prom.h at all. For those ones,
> just remove inclusion of asm/prom.h
> 
> Some files don't need any of the items provided by asm/prom.h,
> but need some of the headers included by asm/prom.h. For those
> ones, add the needed headers that are brought by asm/prom.h at
> the moment, then remove asm/prom.h

Do you mean a follow-up patch is needed to drop the asm/prom.h include
from such files, even if that include could be dropped now without any
fourther change?

If so, I suggest v3 should additionally drop the asm/prom.h include
where possible.


Thanks!

Paolo