Re: [PATCH 2/3] kbuild: generate asm-generic wrappers if mandatory headers are missing

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi Sam,


On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 3:06 AM Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 08:28:05PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > Some time ago, Sam pointed out a certain degree of overwrap between
> > generic-y and mandatory-y. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/10/121)
> >
> > I a bit tweaked the meaning of mandatory-y; now it defines the minimum
> > set of ASM headers that all architectures must have.
> >
> > If arch does not have specific implementation of a mandatory header,
> > Kbuild will let it fallback to the asm-generic one by automatically
> > generating a wrapper. This will allow to drop lots of redundant
> > generic-y defines.
> >
> > Previously, "mandatory" was used in the context of UAPI, but I guess
> > this can be extended to kernel space ASM headers.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Nice work!
>
> For the full series:
> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Have you considered to warn if generic-y contains a header listed
> in mandatory-y - to prevent that they sneak back in.
> And to catch when we lift a header from available to mandatory.


Yes, I also thought of this,
and probably we should do it.





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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada