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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/mpx: tweak header name
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 13:50:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <398c06e7-2d3e-1930-f1ec-58e36ccf9898@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190208164206-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>

On 2/8/19 1:43 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 04:42:39PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 01:02:53AM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> Use linux/mman.h to make sure we get all mmap flags we need.
>> Why, asm/mman.h is not enough or is this fixing a build issue or what is that
>> patch supposed to address?
> Coding style violation: if a linux/foo.h exists then it must
> be included in preference to asm/foo.h

Huh, I don't see that one in Documentation/process/coding-style.rst

> And the specific issue is that a follow-up patch moves code from
> asm/mman.h to linux/mman.h so if any one was indirectly using
> this header it will now miss the symbols that are being moved.

Fair enough.  But, if this is the real reason, it belongs in the changelog.




  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-08 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-08  6:02 [PATCH 0/3] generic asm: mman cleanup Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-08  6:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/mpx: tweak header name Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-08 15:42   ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-08 21:43     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-08 21:50       ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2019-02-08 21:52       ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-10  0:20         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-08  6:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] arch: move common mmap flags to linux/mman.h Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-08  6:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] drm: tweak header name Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-08  8:56   ` Daniel Vetter
2019-02-08 12:55     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-08  6:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] arch: move common mmap flags to linux/mman.h Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-08 18:12 ` [PATCH 0/3] generic asm: mman cleanup Mike Rapoport
2019-02-08 21:19   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-11  4:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-18 14:03   ` Arnd Bergmann

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