Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] zinc: Introduce minimal cryptography library

On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 6:51 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 6:49 PM Andy Lutomirski [off-list ref] wrote:

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I really wish we had a way to see that we use asm-generic’s copy of a header in all cases except where an arch opts out.

It's really not that hard to do -- symlink asm-generic to a target
called "asm" inside an otherwise empty directory, and add that
otherwise empty directory to the -I paths just after arch/include.
Since it's searched second, it's only used if the first fails. Maybe
I'm missing something though, as this seems a bit too obvious. Perhaps
a project for another day.

The problem here (I think) is that it's preferable for stray files in
the kernel tree to have no effect and, with this scheme, stray files
in arch/*/include/asm could affect the build.  So something explicit
has an advantage.  I just think there should be way to say "this
asm-generic file should affect all arches unless they generic-n or
override-generic-y it or whatever".