kernel.h: include a note to discourage people from including it in headers

Include a note at the top to discourage people from including it in
headers.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211209150803.4473-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 77755ac3e189bfa23255bbba4e5c48f4fd8a65f2..36a612d82956560d96151233d8dc674e9e4e3903 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/*
+ * NOTE:
+ *
+ * This header has combined a lot of unrelated to each other stuff.
+ * The process of splitting its content is in progress while keeping
+ * backward compatibility. That's why it's highly recommended NOT to
+ * include this header inside another header file, especially under
+ * generic or architectural include/ directory.
+ */
 #ifndef _LINUX_KERNEL_H
 #define _LINUX_KERNEL_H