From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752890AbbAMU1n (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:27:43 -0500 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.130]:56219 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750976AbbAMU1l (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:27:41 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Paul Bolle Cc: Geoff Levand , Michal Marek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] headers_check: don't warn about kexec.h Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:27:08 +0100 Message-ID: <2363197.VbAKlSiQLX@wuerfel> User-Agent: KMail/4.11.5 (Linux/3.16.0-10-generic; KDE/4.11.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1421169212.15397.22.camel@x220> References: <12825174.7oxZXDxNhV@wuerfel> <1421169212.15397.22.camel@x220> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:bB2VNQODRUMB30XT/pXrL8yI3NCLlTTBkbIXl9o2CYM1C75DC3T VsmKkVlesQ76/BZHQUROiR7XxhLtOrH4EOVlaW3g0Xrd6ZnbgYtyRbndyHomkmkmSBfqNxK Y5KTm0tuGNHiCMiR29WP5++IB9jVqyXoZ4qS1frnnCrQULVLe2przmLCKTzIZPQBIpf2nz9 quIavcsn1DB9QBY98L/MA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 13 January 2015 18:13:32 Paul Bolle wrote: > > For the seqbuf_dump() stuff there are apparently users. I forgot the > details, but the sound people wanted to keep that declaration (and some > related ancient things) in the header involved to keep some really > ancient stuff buildable. > > But the kexec_load declaration isn't very useful for userspace, see the > patch I submitted in > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389791824.17407.9.camel@x220 . And After my > attempt the export of that declaration has also been discussed in > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/115373b6ac68ee7a305975896e1c4971e8e51d4c.1408731991.git.geoff@infradead.org > > In that last discussion no one has been able to point to an actual user > of it. So, as far as I can tell, no one actually uses it. Which makes > sense, because including this header by itself doesn't give one access > to a useful definition of kexec_load. So why bother with the > declaration? > > The last time that Geoff has been trying to get that patch applied > should be > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b0702fc4186db21820d686e89afd6480560823db.1415837218.git.geoff@infradead.org I'd rather see that go in. > Fine with me as well. As long as we can find someone to take one of the patches, I'm happy. Arnd