Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] soc: fsl: Replace kernel.h with the necessary inclusions

Christophe Leroy
2021-10-30T04:49:21Z

Le 29/10/2021 à 22:31, Andy Shevchenko a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 10:04 PM LEROY Christophe
> <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> wrote:
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>> Le 29/10/2021 à 17:55, Andy Shevchenko a écrit :
>>> On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 06:33:54PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>>> When kernel.h is used in the headers it adds a lot into dependency hell,
>>>> especially when there are circular dependencies are involved.
>>>>
>>>> Replace kernel.h inclusion with the list of what is really being used.
>>>
>>> Seems nobody from PPC took this patch.
>>> Any idea who can take it?
>>>
>>
>> You have to check in MAINTAINERS file in the root directory of kernel
>> sources: https://github.com/linuxppc/linux/blob/master/MAINTAINERS
>
> Actually for these files get_maintainer.pl showed nothing.
> I have chosen PPC maintainers manually.
>
>> That's Michael who takes them. But you have to allow him enough time for it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> I wrote that message because I have got a notification from checkpatch
> that it should go somewhere else.
>

That means that Michael considered it is not for him.

And I think the reason is that in MAINTAINERS you have:

FREESCALE QUICC ENGINE LIBRARY
M: Qiang Zhao <qiang.zhao@nxp.com>
L: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
S: Maintained
F: drivers/soc/fsl/qe/
F: include/soc/fsl/*qe*.h
F: include/soc/fsl/*ucc*.h

FREESCALE SOC DRIVERS
M: Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp.com>
L: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
L: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
S: Maintained
F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/fsl,dpaa2-console.yaml
F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/fsl/
F: drivers/soc/fsl/
F: include/linux/fsl/

Sorry I overlooked your patch.

Christophe