From: "hch@lst.de" <hch@lst.de>
To: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>
Cc: "hch@lst.de" <hch@lst.de>, "axboe@kernel.dk" <axboe@kernel.dk>,
"dm-devel@redhat.com" <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
"linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] block: merge blk_types.h into bio.h
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 10:22:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170519082244.GC1411@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1495117551.2713.1.camel@sandisk.com>
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 02:25:52PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-05-18 at 15:18 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > We've cleaned up our headers sufficiently that we don't need this split
> > anymore.
>
> Hello Christoph,
>
> Request-based drivers need the structure definitions from <linux/blkdev.h> and
> the type definitions from <linux/blk_types.h> but do not need the definition of
> struct bio. Have you considered to remove #include <linux/bio.h> from file
> include/linux/blkdev.h? Do you think that would help to reduce the kernel build
> time?
Most block drivers end up needing bio.h anyway. But I can skip this
part of the series for now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-19 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-18 13:17 dedicated error codes for the block layer Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 13:17 ` [PATCH 01/15] nvme-lightnvm: use blk_execute_rq in nvme_nvm_submit_user_cmd Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-24 15:50 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-05-18 13:17 ` [PATCH 02/15] scsi/osd: don't save block errors into req_results Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-24 16:04 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-05-26 5:15 ` hch
2017-05-18 13:18 ` [PATCH 03/15] gfs2: remove the unused sd_log_error field Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-24 16:05 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-05-18 13:18 ` [PATCH 04/15] dm: fix REQ_RAHEAD handling Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-24 16:07 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-05-18 13:18 ` [PATCH 05/15] fs: remove the unused error argument to dio_end_io() Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-24 16:08 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-05-18 13:18 ` [PATCH 06/15] fs: simplify dio_bio_complete Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-24 16:08 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-05-18 13:18 ` [PATCH 07/15] block_dev: propagate bio_iov_iter_get_pages error in __blkdev_direct_IO Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 13:18 ` [PATCH 08/15] dm mpath: merge do_end_io_bio into multipath_end_io_bio Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-22 18:51 ` [dm-devel] " Martin Wilck
2017-05-26 5:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 13:18 ` [PATCH 09/15] dm: don't return errnos from ->map Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 13:18 ` [PATCH 10/15] dm: change ->end_io calling convention Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 13:18 ` [PATCH 11/15] fs-writeback: move wbc_to_write_flags out of line Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 13:18 ` [PATCH 12/15] block: merge blk_types.h into bio.h Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 14:25 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-05-19 8:22 ` hch [this message]
2017-05-18 13:18 ` [PATCH 14/15] blk-mq: switch ->queue_rq return value to blk_status_t Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-18 14:55 ` dedicated error codes for the block layer David Sterba
2017-05-19 8:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
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