Re: [GIT PATCH] Fix asm-avr32/dma-mapping.h breakage

[Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Oct 24 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:24:53PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 24 2007, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> > > > Hi Linus,
> > > >
> > > > Sorry about sending you pull requests so rapidly, but Jens broke my
> > > > dma-mapping.h yesterday. Or you may say the bug was there to begin with
> > > > and Jens merely exposed it, but that makes it sound like my fault ;-)
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, please pull from
> > > >
> > > >   ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6.git for-linus
> > > >
> > > > to receive the following update.
> > >
> > > You should not take the blame :-)
> > >
> > > I'm collecting these patches, so I'll pull your fix and make sure it
> > > gets to Linus today along with the other fixes.
> >
> > How about doing a "git grep asm/scatterlist"
> > and fix all victims to use linux/scatterlist?
> > Or you maybe did this already.
> 
> i was just about to ask -- is this one of those cases where the asm
> versions of scatterlist.h should have a warning/error that they should
> not be included directly, and to include linux/scatterlist.h instead?

No, using asm/scatterlist.h is perfectly fine. The problem is code using
the sg helpers should include linux/scatterlist.h since that is where
those are defined.

If you just need the scatterlist structure definition, then
asm/scatterlist.h is the correct include.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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