Re: [PATCH 2/3] arc: get rid of private asm/unaligned.h

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On 10/1/24 12:53, Al Viro wrote:
> Declarations local to arch/*/kernel/*.c are better off *not* in a public
> header - arch/arc/kernel/unaligned.h is just fine for those
> bits.
>
> Unlike the parisc case, here we have an extra twist - asm/mmu.h
> has an implicit dependency on struct pt_regs, and in some users
> that used to be satisfied by include of asm/ptrace.h from
> asm/unaligned.h (note that asm/mmu.h itself did _not_ pull asm/unaligned.h
> - it relied upon the users having pulled asm/unaligned.h before asm/mmu.h
> got there).
>
> Seeing that asm/mmu.h only wants struct pt_regs * arguments in
> an extern, just pre-declare it there - less brittle that way.
>
> With that done _all_ asm/unaligned.h instances are reduced to include
> of asm-generic/unaligned.h and can be removed - unaligned.h is in
> mandatory-y in include/asm-generic/Kbuild.
>
> What's more, we can move asm-generic/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h
> and switch includes of <asm/unaligned.h> to <linux/unaligned.h>; that's
> better off as an auto-generated commit, though, to be done by Linus
> at -rc1 time next cycle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxx>

LGTM. And by your next tree is fine/preferred.

Thx,
-Vineet




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