Re: [PATCH] infiniband/mlx5: Remove superfluous include of io-mapping.h

From: Chris Wilson
Date: Tue Aug 23 2016 - 17:43:04 EST


On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 12:15:50AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 09:16:26PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > This file does not use any structs or functions defined by io-mapping.h
> > (nor does it directly use iomap, ioremap, iounamp or friends). Remove it
> > to simplify verification of changes to io-mapping.h
> >
> > The include existed since its inception in
> >
> > commit e126ba97dba9edeb6fafa3665b5f8497fc9cdf8c
> > Author: Eli Cohen <eli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sun Jul 7 17:25:49 2013 +0300
> >
> > mlx5: Add driver for Mellanox Connect-IB adapters
> >
> > which looks like a copy across from the Mellanox ethernet driver.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I assume that it passed 0-day builds.
>
> Except the commit message, which doesn't follow SubmittingPatches guide,
> it looks good.

If you mean the full commit reference rather than the short form, the
long form can be preferred if it lends significance. In this case I
wanted to highlight that it was the original commit that introduced the
include.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre