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SubjectRe: fix various asm-generic abuses
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On Saturday 29 August 2015 15:49:37 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 09:16:51PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Friday 28 August 2015 09:27:13 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > This fixes two trivial classes of asm-generic abuse. First two headers
> > > that are intended for drivers are moved to include/linux, and second
> > > various drivers that incorrectly use asm-generic headers directly are
> > > switched over to use the proper public headers. There are a few more
> > > asm-generic abuse, but they aren't quite as trivial so they will take
> > > a little more effort to fix.
> >
> > Thanks a lot, these all look really useful. My normal way of dealing
> > with asm-generic patches is to have changes go through the tree of
> > whichever maintainer needs the changes for their own work with my
> > Ack, but I guess in this case you don't actually have other patches
> > depending on them, right?
>
> No, there's nothing depending on it.
>
> > If driver maintainers want to pick individual patches from this series,
> > please add my
> >
> > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >
> > otherwise let me know if I should put them into my asm-generic git
> > tree (which is currently empty, but part of linux-next).
>
> Note that the first two are something you should probably pick up either
> way as they aren't really specific to a driver.

I've applied the remaining patches to my asm-generic tree now, with
the Acks from Herbert, Darren and Hitoshi.

Arnd


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