linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] docs: Update documentation to avoid mentioning of kernel.h

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Message-ID: <e5ca4be6-6919-4855-bb7f-bd36761eab0f@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:18:29 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
 "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@...blig.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, workflows@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-remoteproc@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>,
 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>,
 Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
 Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
 Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] docs: Update documentation to avoid mentioning of
 kernel.h

On 11/26/25 12:59 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> For several years, and still ongoing, the kernel.h is being split
> to smaller and narrow headers to avoid "including everything" approach
> which is bad in many ways. Since that, documentation missed a few
> required updates to align with that work. Do it here.
> 
> Note, language translations are left untouched and if anybody willing
> to help, please provide path(es) based on the updated English variant.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst              |  2 +-
>  Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst          |  2 +-
>  Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst             | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
>  .../driver-api/driver-model/design-patterns.rst |  2 +-
>  Documentation/process/coding-style.rst          | 10 +++++++---
>  Documentation/staging/rpmsg.rst                 |  7 +++++--
>  6 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 

> diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> index 2969ca378dbb..d63ea0bffdfe 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> @@ -1070,7 +1070,7 @@ readability.
>  18) Don't re-invent the kernel macros
>  -------------------------------------
>  
> -The header file include/linux/kernel.h contains a number of macros that
> +There many header files in include/linux/ that contain a number of macros that

   There are many

>  you should use, rather than explicitly coding some variant of them yourself.
>  For example, if you need to calculate the length of an array, take advantage
>  of the macro

Otherwise LGTM. Thanks.

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>

-- 
~Randy