From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: RFC: cleaning up the in-kernel headers
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:06:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060711160639.GY13938@stusta.de> (raw)
I'd like to cleanup the mess of the in-kernel headers, based on the
following rules:
- every header should #include everything it uses
- remove unneeded #include's from headers
This would also remove all the implicit rules "before #include'ing
header foo.h, you must #include header bar.h" you usually only see when
the compilation fails.
There might be exceptions (e.g. for avoiding circular #include's) but
these would be special cases.
As a side effect, this might also lead to additional cleanups.
This might cause some breakages, but it should usually only be compile
breakages I'll fix as soon as I see them (or anyone else reports them
to me).
My plan is to create a git tree where I'll work on this that will be
included in -mm.
Is this OK for everyone?
cu
Adrian
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next reply other threads:[~2006-07-11 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-11 16:06 Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-07-11 16:28 ` RFC: cleaning up the in-kernel headers David Woodhouse
2006-07-11 17:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-11 19:34 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-07-11 19:41 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-07-11 20:41 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-07-11 21:37 ` Jörn Engel
2006-07-11 22:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-11 22:20 ` Jörn Engel
2006-07-11 22:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-11 22:40 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-07-11 21:04 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-11 22:24 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-07-11 17:07 ` Dave Jones
2006-07-11 17:15 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-07-11 18:19 ` Dave Jones
2006-07-11 22:27 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-07-11 19:05 ` Russell King
2006-07-11 22:19 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-07-11 20:26 ` [PATCH] Fix broken kernel headers preventing ARM build Russell King
2006-07-13 19:05 ` RFC: cleaning up the in-kernel headers Christoph Lameter
2006-07-15 4:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-07-15 4:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-17 0:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-07-20 10:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-07-14 0:11 ` David Woodhouse
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