Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] ACPICA: Remove deprecated _LINUX definitions for ACPICA.

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On 4/28/2014 6:10 AM, Zheng, Lv wrote:
Hi, Rafael

From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 5:39 AM

On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 02:54:22 PM Lv Zheng wrote:
There are _LINUX defined so that when Linux kernel is compiled using broken
compilers that having not __linux__ defined can still include
<acpi/platform/aclinux.h> from <acpi/platform/acenv.h>.

This behavior is deprecated as all drivers/acpi/acpica files are compiled
without including <linux/acpi.h>, thus without _LINUX defined.  As there is
no issues encountered when we compile ACPICA code without _LINUX defined,
it is OK to remove _LINUX from <linux/acpi.h> now.

Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@xxxxxxxxx>
---
  include/linux/acpi.h |    4 ----
  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/acpi.h b/include/linux/acpi.h
index 7a8f2cd..9c559f7 100644
--- a/include/linux/acpi.h
+++ b/include/linux/acpi.h
@@ -31,10 +31,6 @@

  #ifdef	CONFIG_ACPI

-#ifndef _LINUX
-#define _LINUX
-#endif
-
  #include <linux/list.h>
  #include <linux/mod_devicetable.h>
What about <acpi/platform/acenv.h>?  Should it still check if _LINUX is defined
after this change?
If you mean these lines:
   #if defined(_LINUX) || defined(__linux__)
   #include <acpi/platform/aclinux.h>
After deleting "_LINUX" from <linux/acpi.h>, acenv.h still can include aclinux.h because of "__linux__".
Actually all drivers/acpi/acpica source files are compiled without including <linux/acpi.h>, so "_LINUX" defined in this file is useless to Linux.
We needn't delete "_LINUX" from acenv.h.

"_LINUX" is only used in ACPICA makefiles, Linux never uses it:
   https://github.com/acpica/acpica/blob/master/generate/unix/Makefile.config
ACPICA can be compiled using the following make command:
   make HOST=_LINUX
I think this is the only usage of "_LINUX" for now.

Well, my point was: If we delete the definition of _LINUX, why don't we drop the symbol itself from everywhere along with it?

It definitely is not useful to refer to a symbol that's never defined, is it?

Rafael

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