Re: [PATCH] kbuild: kvm: make export of linux/kvm_para.h unconditional

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Aug 03 2012 - 09:11:34 EST


On Friday 03 August 2012, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > I know we here hit a bad thing with the generic-y support,
> > > where we miss a good way to add a file to a lot of archs
> > > without editing a lot of files.
> >
> > If there isn't a generic version of the header, then yes, I guess you have
> > to modify the architectures that want to export it.
> >
> > I'm happy to post an extra patch sorting out kvm.h and a.out.h if that's
> > what's required to get headers building again.
>
> IMO this is required to sort this out for good.
> I will be happy to review your patches.

I also owe Mark Brown a solution for the asm/clkdev.h redirect,
as by http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1207.0/01141.html

I would very much like to avoid adding another wildcard logic for
generic-y, but I could not figure out how to do that better.

Arnd
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