Re: [PATCH] ARM: OMAP2+: Prevent redefinition errors for soc.h

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com> [121109 08:31]:
> 
> On 11/09/2012 10:22 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com> [121109 08:21]:
> >> If the header soc.h is included more than once in a source (for example
> >> once directly by the source file and once indirectly by another header
> >> file), then the compiler will generate redefintion errors for the macros
> >> in soc.h. Prevent this by only allowing the content in soc.h to be
> >> included once.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Please note that I ran into this problem when rebasing my dmtimer fixes
> >> series [1] on Tony's Linux-OMAP master branch. I am including plat/cpu.h
> >> in dmtimer.h and I found several other files including dmtimer.h are also
> >> including soc.h and so generate a lot of errors.
> >>
> >> [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=135231490218361&w=2
> > 
> > As these headers are private to mach-omap2, I'd rather not allow including
> > them more than once so we can eventually clean up the includes further.
> > 
> > We should include the headers directly where used, except for the
> > legacy board-*.c files that will be going away anyways.
> > 
> > Including the files directly should fix this easily, if not let me
> > know.
> 
> The alternative fix is to ensure anyone including dmtimer.h also
> includes soc.h. However, I did not know if we should have such a
> dependency. If you are ok with that then that is what I will do for now.
> It is not a massive change.

Do you mean anything under mach-omap2/*.c including dmtimer.h also
needs to also include soc.h? If sounds OK to me as long as we don't
need to include soc.h outside mach-omap2.

Regards,

Tony