Re: Clarifying confusion of our variable placement rules caused by cleanup.h

From: H. Peter Anvin

Date: Tue Nov 18 2025 - 14:19:48 EST


On 2025-11-18 11:16, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 at 11:11, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Do you want me to send you the patchset during the merge window?
>
> Sure. I don't think it's a high priority, but I do think it's an
> improvement and allows people to write clearer code.
>
> I assume all the conversions got acked?
>

I think so, and most importantly, the only one which wasn't mechanical (at the
maintainer's request.)

However, as long as the actual definition patch gets in there any subsequent
conversions can also go through maintainer trees if they prefer.

-hpa