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On Wed, 16 Feb 2022, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> > > Instead of adding generic-y just ad a mandatory-y in
> > > include/asm-generic/Kbuild.
> > 
> >  I'm inconvinced.  Not all archs want it, 5 don't.
> 
> Which is exactly what mandatory-y is for.  Provide the asm-generic
> version by default, but let architectures override it.

 I don't think so.  Those 5 architectures don't want it at all; 7 other 
ones have their own versions.

 Otherwise we could blanket-list all asm-generic headers as mandatory-y.

  Maciej