From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24F61C433E0 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 2021 08:39:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A8764F43 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 2021 08:39:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234809AbhBDIj5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Feb 2021 03:39:57 -0500 Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.66]:38823 "EHLO outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S234513AbhBDIj4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Feb 2021 03:39:56 -0500 Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.94) with esmtps (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (envelope-from ) id 1l7aAS-000TYi-I1; Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:39:12 +0100 Received: from p5b13a4ea.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([91.19.164.234] helo=[192.168.178.139]) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.94) with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (envelope-from ) id 1l7aAS-000s37-7V; Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:39:12 +0100 Subject: Re: [PATCH] efi: ia64: move IA64-only declarations to new asm/efi.h header To: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: linux-efi , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Tony Luck , Fenghua Yu , Arnd Bergmann , Mike Rapoport References: <20210118124913.1555-1-ardb@kernel.org> From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Message-ID: <294348ae-c87a-3bc1-3593-e0c7982fe7d7@physik.fu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 09:39:11 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Original-Sender: glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de X-Originating-IP: 91.19.164.234 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Hi Ard! On 2/4/21 9:33 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > That is one aspect of it. Another aspect is that the lack of a > asm/efi.h header created some problems in the past, given that all > other EFI architectures do have it. > > But the most important reason is really that arch-specific definitions > for an obsolete architecture should not be visible in other builds. I fully agree. I try to test your patches over the weekend. Since Tony is not active anymore, we need to get the patches pulled in through someone else's tree. Probably Arnd or Mike (both CC'ed). Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913