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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/8] x86: xen: audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h
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On 14/07/16 02:18, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Historically a lot of these existed because we did not have
> a distinction between what was modular code and what was providing
> support to modules via EXPORT_SYMBOL and friends. That changed
> when we forked out support for the latter into the export.h file.
>
> This means we should be able to reduce the usage of module.h
> in code that is obj-y Makefile or bool Kconfig. The advantage
> in doing so is that module.h itself sources about 15 other headers;
> adding significantly to what we feed cpp, and it can obscure what
> headers we are effectively using.
>
> Since module.h was the source for init.h (for __init) and for
> export.h (for EXPORT_SYMBOL) we consider each obj-y/bool instance
> for the presence of either and replace as needed.
>
> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: x86@kernel.org
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

Juergen

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