asm/termios.h has tons of duplication and rather convoluted logics re includes. First of all, while everyone has uapi asm/termios.h, some architectures have asm/termios.h and some do not. So include of <asm/termios.h> can go either to arch asm/termios.h, or to uapi/asm/termios.h. In the former case asm/termios.h defines a bunch of helpers (used in just one file) and a constant (3 more users) and includes uapi/asm/termios.h In the latter... uapi/asm/termios.h is in generated-y or equivalent to it. Which is to say, it ends up doing #include <asm-generic/termios.h>. Userland-side that would refer to uapi/asm-generic/termios.h, but kernel-side we end up with plain asm-generic/termios.h. Which defines the same set of helpers and a constant and pulls uapi/asm-generic/termios.h Helpers in question are heavily shared; there is an attempt to put them into a common header (termios-base.h), but not all instances use it. Another unpleasant thing is that said helpers tend to be macros, with very little typechecking. And all of that is pulled in by a lot more places than those that are actually interested - 500-odd instead of 4. Below is an attempt to untangle that; the branch is vfs.git#work.termios, patches in followups. FWIW, diffstat is arch/Kconfig | 3 + arch/alpha/Kconfig | 1 + arch/alpha/include/asm/termios.h | 81 ------------ arch/alpha/include/asm/termios_internal.h | 72 ++++++++++ arch/ia64/include/asm/termios.h | 58 -------- arch/mips/include/asm/termios.h | 105 --------------- arch/parisc/include/asm/termios.h | 52 -------- arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 + .../include/asm/{termios.h => termios_internal.h} | 7 +- arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 - arch/s390/include/asm/termios.h | 26 ---- arch/sparc/Kconfig | 1 + arch/sparc/include/asm/termios.h | 147 --------------------- arch/sparc/include/asm/termios_internal.h | 134 +++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 1 + arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/termios.h | 1 - drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c | 1 + drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c | 1 - drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 1 + drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c | 1 + drivers/tty/vcc.c | 1 + include/asm-generic/termios-base.h | 78 ----------- include/asm-generic/termios.h | 108 --------------- include/linux/termios_internal.h | 137 +++++++++++++++++++ 24 files changed, 355 insertions(+), 664 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 arch/alpha/include/asm/termios.h create mode 100644 arch/alpha/include/asm/termios_internal.h delete mode 100644 arch/ia64/include/asm/termios.h delete mode 100644 arch/mips/include/asm/termios.h delete mode 100644 arch/parisc/include/asm/termios.h rename arch/powerpc/include/asm/{termios.h => termios_internal.h} (70%) delete mode 100644 arch/s390/include/asm/termios.h delete mode 100644 arch/sparc/include/asm/termios.h create mode 100644 arch/sparc/include/asm/termios_internal.h delete mode 100644 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/termios.h delete mode 100644 include/asm-generic/termios-base.h delete mode 100644 include/asm-generic/termios.h create mode 100644 include/linux/termios_internal.h