Re: [PATCH] iomap: hide iomap_sector with CONFIG_BLOCK=n

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jul 18 2019 - 09:08:41 EST


On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 03:03:15PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The inclusion comes from the recently added header check in commit
> c93a0368aaa2 ("kbuild: do not create wrappers for header-test-y").
>
> This just tries to include every header by itself to see if there are build
> failures from missing indirect includes. We probably don't want to
> add an exception for iomap.h there.

I very much disagree with that check. We don't need to make every
header compilable with a setup where it should not be included.

That being said if you feel this is worth fixing I'd rather define
SECTOR_SIZE/SECTOR_SHIFT unconditionally.