Re: [PATCH 5.7 0/6] 5.7.14-rc1 review

[Guenter Roeck]

On 8/5/20 12:45 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 12:24 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 8/5/20 11:37 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>
>>> Because the trivial fix would be something like the appended, which is
>>> the right thing to do anyway.
>>
>> Correct.
> 
> I'll take that as an Ack, and also remove the crazy reverse include
> from archrandom.h that most definitely shouldn't be there.
> 
Thanks, appreciated.

> It's now commit 585524081ecd ("random: random.h should include
> archrandom.h, not the other way around") in my tree, because a grep
> for "archrandom.h" shows that now the only place it exists is
> <linux/random.h> and a few files that cannot possibly affect arm64
> (because they are on x86 and powerpc, neither of which has that insane
> reverse include).
> 

I tried to build arm64 on current mainline, after reverting the dts
patches which cause the build failures there. Builds fine with both
gcc 7.4.0 and 9.3.0. 5.7.14-rc2 builds as well with both old and new
compilers. So hopefully we are fine.

Guenter