Re: git-nfsd on ia64

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 08:27:06PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > This should have been done in the first place, IMO.  Avoid header file
> > dependencies, faster compile, avoid crap like the above.
> 
> OK.  So as a general rule, we should skip the include any time when a
> few structure declarations would suffice?

Yes.  Unessecary includes should always be avoided, and forward
declarations are a nice way to avoid includes.

> Hm.  It also seems wrong that sys_ia32.c would need to include so many
> nfsd/sunrpc headers.  It looks like that should be easy to fix with a
> better organization of the nfsd headers--I'll do that, assuming it's
> considered worthwhile....

Why does it need to include either of these at all?  There's nothing
nfs-specific in that file.