Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/boot: Drop unused min_t()/max_t() helpers

From: Jared Baldridge

Date: Fri Aug 28 2026 - 09:11:45 EST




On Fri, Aug 28, 2026, at 9:06 AM, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> Commit c762c69e106f ("powerpc/boot: Add support for XZ compression")
> added min_t() and max_t() to support XZ in the boot wrapper. However,
> since commit 9f121705503a ("lib/xz: replace min_t with min") XZ no
> longer depends on these helpers. Remove them from the boot wrapper.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <blum@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Mention the commit that removed XZ's dependency on min_t(), fixing the
> build failure seen with v1
> - v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260525091839.817778-3-thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx/
> ---
> arch/powerpc/boot/types.h | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/types.h b/arch/powerpc/boot/types.h
> index 8a4c418b7260..c5085c2632bf 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/types.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/types.h
> @@ -37,9 +37,6 @@ typedef s64 int64_t;
> (void) (&_x == &_y); \
> _x > _y ? _x : _y; })
>
> -#define min_t(type, a, b) min(((type) a), ((type) b))
> -#define max_t(type, a, b) max(((type) a), ((type) b))
> -
> typedef int bool;
>
> #ifndef true