Re: [PATCH] x86: more header fixes

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Thu Jun 26 2008 - 14:00:33 EST


On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 03:44:51PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Can I ask you to chase all uses of #include <asm-x86/xxx.h>
> > and convert them to #include <asm/xxx.h>
> >
> > When we move include/asm-x86 to arch/x86/include/asm this is needed and
> > better to fix these sooner.
>
> Hm. I can't really seem to find many:
>
> ./Documentation/lguest/lguest.c:#include "asm-x86/bootparam.h"
> ./arch/um/sys-x86_64/syscall_table.c:#include <asm-x86/unistd_64.h>
> ./arch/um/sys-x86_64/syscall_table.c:#include <asm-x86/unistd_64.h>
> ./arch/ia64/ia32/audit.c:#include <asm-x86/unistd_32.h>
>
> ..and I don't even know how to fix them. It seems that we might want
> to use filesystem links here instead? (Git should be able to handle
> that.)

Looking at the list again you are right that this is not the type of
'bugs' that I initially thought it was.
We should leave them as is for now and fix it up when
we decide to move the headers.


> E.g. so that arch/ia64/include/asm/unistd_32.h ->
> arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h. Then arch/ia64/ia32/audit.c can
> #include <asm/unistd_32.h>.
It is better to be explicit in the include than trying to do clever
tricks behind the bag og gcc.

Sam
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