linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] docs: Update documentation to avoid mentioning of kernel.h

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Message-ID: <87fr9218jr.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:00:24 -0700
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>, Randy Dunlap
 <rdunlap@...radead.org>, 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>, 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 v2 1/1] docs: Update documentation to avoid mentioning
 of kernel.h

Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> writes:

> 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>
> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> ---
>
> v2: collected tag (Randy), fixed util_macros k-doc (Randy, me), fixed spelling (Randy)
>
>  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 +++++--
>  include/linux/util_macros.h                     |  2 +-
>  7 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Applied (finally) thanks.

jon