Re: [PATCH 20/25] sparc: Use Kbuild infrastructure to handleasm-generic headers

From: David Miller
Date: Sat Oct 13 2012 - 17:53:58 EST


From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:54:00 -0400

> On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 23:19 -0400, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:26:52 -0400
>>
>> > From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> > Use Kbuild infrastructure to handle the asm-generic headers
>> > and remove the wrapper headers that call them.
>> >
>> > This only affects headers that do nothing but include the generic
>> > equivalent. It does not touch any header that does a little more.
>> >
>> > Cc: linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Cc: sparclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> David,
>
> Would you like to take this patch? It's not dependent on any of the
> other patches. Otherwise I'll probably ask Andrew to pull it into his
> tree. Or I can just set up a branch and have it go into linux-next for
> the next merge window.

I really would like to take less rather than take more.

This whole UAPI, Kbuild, etc. stuff is just bogging subsystem
maintainers down. This kind of stuff should just go via the person
who does all the work and knows how it all ties together and knows
what dependencies, if any, exist in the series.

So please merge this yourself, thanks.
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