On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 03:16:43PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 10 August 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Or you can do it by creating the default file, and then editing EVERY > > SINGLE ARCHITECTURE. Which just sucks. > > > > This has come up before, for similar situations - wanting to implement > > optional architecture capabilities without having to worry about > > architectures that don't support it. > > If you mostly care about new extensions, we can ignore all the > user ABI headers for now and find a solution that just deals with > the kernel internal ones. > > I think the easiest way to do that would be to move all non-exported > headers from include/asm-generic to include/asm. Since it's only about > internel users then, we can simply use "#include_next <asm/foo.h>" > to refer to them from arch-specific files that want to reuse them > only partially and also add some of their own definitions. Aiiieee... Please, please, no - include_next is a very ugly idea ;-/ Let's avoid it, if at all possible. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
