linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] uapi: fix remaining kconfig leaks in UAPI headers

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Message-Id: <b78c96d5-bd5e-47b5-86b3-e06855fcd6be@app.fastmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:42:55 +0100
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>,
 "Vineet Gupta" <vgupta@...nel.org>, "Russell King" <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
 "Dinh Nguyen" <dinguyen@...nel.org>, "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
 "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...hat.com>, "Borislav Petkov" <bp@...en8.de>,
 "Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] uapi: fix remaining kconfig leaks in UAPI headers

On Mon, Jan 12, 2026, at 08:58, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> A few UAPI headers still contained references to kconfig symbols.
> Clean them all up and afterwards remove the now useless exception
> machinery in headers_install.sh.
>
> Intended to be routed through the kbuild tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
> ---

Whole series

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

I would have preferred cleaning up the x86 auxvec.h header
more, but we can always do that later and your patch not
a regression.

Should I take the series through the asm-generic tree if there
are no other concerns, or do you have other plans for merging it?

      Arnd