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

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Date:   Tue, 19 Apr 2022 09:29:29 +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>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] sungem: Prepare cleanup of powerpc's
 asm/prom.h

Hello,

On Fri, 2022-04-15 at 10:43 +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> powerpc's asm/prom.h brings some headers that it doesn't
> need itself.
> 
> 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
> 
> Some files really need asm/prom.h but also need some of the
> headers included by asm/prom.h. For those one, leave asm/prom.h
> but also add the needed headers so that they can be removed
> from asm/prom.h in a later step.

This commit message is a little confusing, as this patch covers only a
single case of the above. I suggest to replace re-phrase the commit
message to be more specific. You could also explcitly mention which
symbols from linux/of.h sungem_phy.c needs, if the list is short.

Thanks,

Paolo