Re: [PATCH 2/2] iio: st_sensors: Remove some redundant includes in st_sensors.h

[Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com>]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 22:02:37 +0200
Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Le 17/06/2023 à 20:49, Jonathan Cameron a écrit :
> > On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 22:13:37 +0200
> > Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> >   
> >> There is no need to include i2c.h and spi/spi.h in st_sensors.h.
> >> Should it be needed, st_sensors_(i2c|spi).h should be used.  
> > Agreed these should be dropped from here.
> > 
> > But I don't agree with statement that i2c.h and spi/spi.h should
> > be gotten implicitly from st_sensors_i2c.h / st_sensors_spi.h
> > If they are needed the should be included directly in the files
> > where they are needed.
> > 
> > Jonathan  
> 
> Another option I thought about was to:
>     - keep the includes in st_sensors.h
> 
>     - move function declaration in st_sensors.h
> int st_sensors_spi_configure(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
> 			     struct spi_device *spi);
> and
> int st_sensors_i2c_configure(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
> 			     struct i2c_client *client);
> 
>     - remove st_sensors_spi.h and st_sensors_i2c.h
> 
> At least, it would simplify things a remove 2 mostly useless .h file.
> 
> It would not give the benefit of removing some include for files that do 
> not require spi.h or i2c.h, but as these includes are already there, it 
> wouldn't make things worst :)
> 
> What do you think of this approach?

Gut feeling is not worth bothering...  Having separate _i2c.h and _spi.h
seems fine to me.  I'm fine with this patch, just not the description.

Jonathan

> 
> CJ
> 
> >   
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
> >> ---
> >> Based on one of my script, this reduces the number of included files from
> >> 573 files to 515 files when compiling drivers/iio/accel/st_accel_buffer.c
> >> ---
> >>   include/linux/iio/common/st_sensors.h | 2 --
> >>   1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/include/linux/iio/common/st_sensors.h b/include/linux/iio/common/st_sensors.h
> >> index 607c3a89a647..a1d3d57d6d6e 100644
> >> --- a/include/linux/iio/common/st_sensors.h
> >> +++ b/include/linux/iio/common/st_sensors.h
> >> @@ -10,8 +10,6 @@
> >>   #ifndef ST_SENSORS_H
> >>   #define ST_SENSORS_H
> >>   
> >> -#include <linux/i2c.h>
> >> -#include <linux/spi/spi.h>
> >>   #include <linux/irqreturn.h>
> >>   #include <linux/iio/iio.h>
> >>   #include <linux/iio/trigger.h>  
> > 
> >   
>