Re: [PATCH v8 01/17] spi: add basic support for SPI offloading

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 04:29:33PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 04:20:50PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 01:00:08PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 10:33:31PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 05:48:00PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 11:11:23AM -0600, David Lechner wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > > In this case, we specifically split up the headers so that the only time you
> > > > > > would ever include this header is if you need to call functions in this
> > > > > > namespace (i.e. struct definitions are in linux/spi/offload/types.h which
> > > > > > doesn't import the namespace). So this doesn't actually seem like a problem
> > > > > > to me.
> > > 
> > > > > Indeed - I can't see any case where a user would need the header without
> > > > > needing the namespace.
> > > 
> > > > You are looking from the other end. What I'm telling is that anyone who adds
> > > > a header, automatically gets a namespace. What's the point to have namespace
> > > > if it won't easily prevent from (ab)using it in the code. I consider putting
> > > > MODULE_IMPORT_NS() in the headers a bit weird.
> > > 
> > > Sure, but there's no case where anyone should ever be adding the header
> > > without adding the namespace which does rather sound like the sort of
> > > thing where you should just move the namespace addition to the header.
> > 
> > $ git grep -lw MODULE_IMPORT_NS | wc -l
> > 651
> > 
> > $ git grep -lw MODULE_IMPORT_NS | grep '\.h$'
> > 
> > drivers/base/firmware_loader/sysfs.h
> > drivers/iio/adc/ltc2497.h
> > drivers/pwm/pwm-dwc.h
> > ^^^ These ones are probably fine as they are not in include/
> > 
> > include/kunit/visibility.h
> > include/linux/module.h
> > include/linux/pwm.h
> > 
> > I believe these three are misuses of MODULE_IMPORT_NS(). Because one may add
> 
> _Two_, of course, module.h provides the macro :-)

And after looking into include/kunit/visibility.h it becomes only a single one.
So, PWM is abuser of MODULE_IMPORT_NS() and this series added one more.

> > a header just as a "proxy" one (copy'n'paste, for example) and we know that is
> > real as we saw a lot of code that has semi-random header inclusion blocks.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko