Re: RFC: cleaning up the in-kernel headers

Russell King
2006-07-11T19:05:51Z

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 06:06:39PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> My plan is to create a git tree where I'll work on this that will be
> included in -mm.
>
> Is this OK for everyone?

Sure, provided it's also tested on non-x86 architectures as well.

At the moment, someone did a "clean up" of linux/tty.h includes
which has broken the 99% of the ARM defconfigs, and despite this
patch being in -mm and allegedly fixed by akpm for ARM, the result
is still massive breakage.

Hence, -mm is probably far too different from mainline for include
cleanups to be properly tested before they're sent to Linus - iow
they need an additional level of testing against Linus' tree _prior_
to being submitted to Linus.

Apart from that, I've no problem with anyone who wants to clean up
the include mess.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core