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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-cluster@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [-mm patch] drivers/dlm/: possible cleanups
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 21:20:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051107202051.GQ3847@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051107200431.GC20531@redhat.com>

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:04:31PM -0600, David Teigland wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:06:40PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
> > - every file should #include the headers containing the prototypes for
> >   it's global functions
> 
> Including unnecessary headers doesn't sound right.
>...

They aren't unnecessary.

If you #include them, gcc can tell when the prototypes in the header and 
the C file are accidentially different.

Without the #include's, this would result in a nasty runtime error.

> Thanks,
> Dave

cu
Adrian

BTW: Please ignore the resending of this patch that overlapped with
     your answer.

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-07 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-04 12:06 [-mm patch] drivers/dlm/: possible cleanups Adrian Bunk
2005-11-07 20:04 ` David Teigland
2005-11-07 20:20   ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-07 20:04 Adrian Bunk

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