Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] fbdev: Include via

Arnd Bergmann
2023-05-03T08:53:26Z

On Wed, May 3, 2023, at 10:12, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Am 03.05.23 um 09:19 schrieb Javier Martinez Canillas:
>> Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> writes:
>>>>
>>>> There are countless examples where the above are not followed,
>>>> but to my best understanding the above it the preferred way to do it.
>>>
>>> Where did youher this? I only know about this in the case of asm/io.h
>>> vs. linux/io.h.
>>>
>>
>> I understand that's the case too. I believe even checkpatch.pl complains
>> about it? (not that the script always get right, but just as an example).
>
> Do you know if that's the general rule? If so, we might want to
> repurpose <asm/fbio.h> for the framebuffer I/O functions.

It's certainly the general trend across all of the kernel to have
drivers prefer including linux/*.h, and to move stuff from asm/*.h
to linux/*.h as it gets generalized across architectures.

Arnd