Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] lib/vsprintf: Split out sprintf() and friends

From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>, Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] lib/vsprintf: Split out sprintf() and friends
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2023 00:31:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZM6/za76TZyX5tdg@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230805114304.001f8afe1d325dbb6f05d67e@linux-foundation.org>

On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 11:43:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat,  5 Aug 2023 20:50:26 +0300 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > kernel.h is being used as a dump for all kinds of stuff for a long time.
> > sprintf() and friends are used in many drivers without need of the full
> > kernel.h dependency train with it.
> 
> There seems little point in this unless someone signs up to convert
> lots of code to include sprintf.h instead of kernel.h?
> 
> And such conversions will presumably cause all sorts of nasties
> which require additional work?
> 
> So... what's the plan here?

My main plan is to clean _headers_ from kernel.h.
The rest of the code may do that gradually.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko