Re: [PATCH 00/17] Add memberof(), split some headers, and slightly simplify code

Andy Shevchenko
2021-11-19T16:38:13Z

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 05:12:19PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> On 11/19/21 16:57, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

...

> > On the plus side, I did see something on the order of a 30%
> > compile speed improvement with clang, which is insane
> > given that this only removed dead definitions.
>
> Huh!
>
> I'd like to see the kernel some day
> not having _any_ hidden dependencies.

It's neither feasible nor practical. If we know the hard dependencies between
headers, why should we not use implicit inclusion?

We all know that bitmap.h includes bitops.h and this is good and a must, why
to avoid this?

--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko