Re: [PATCH v4 01/20] driver core: Split devres APIs to device/devres.h

[Raag Jadav <raag.jadav@intel.com>]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 02:10:51PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 12:56:11PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2025, at 12:37, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > >
> > > The problem this series solves at the beginning is that not all the consumers
> > > of device.h needs it, in many cases the device/devres.h (or subset of
> > > device/*.h) is enough to include. While solving this, it appears that
> > > the current code uses ERR_PTR() instead of IOMEM_ERR_PTR() in devm_*io*() APIs
> > > and kernel test robot found this and complained about. While solving
> > > this new issue, LKP found another issue that is circular dependency.
> > > But the original code only wants to have an access to IOMEM_ERR_PTR() which
> > > is in io.h and can be moved to err.h AFAICS. Does this sound reasonable?
> > 
> > Yes, that sounds fine to me. I agree that not including linux/io.h
> > from device/devres.h is a good idea, same as no longer including
> > linux/device.h from asm/io.h. Moving IOMEM_ERR_PTR() as you
> > describe is the right idea.
> 
> Thank you for confirming the idea. Raag, please follow as suggested:
> 
> Move IOMEM_ERR_PTR() to err.h (perhaps in a separate patch),
> and drop io.h from devres.h as it will be not needed.

Sure, and perhaps drop a few patches to reduce spam while we sort this out.

Raag