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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] GPIO: #include <linux/kernel.h> for might_sleep
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:05:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804111005.52041.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1207902290-25381-1-git-send-email-Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>

On Friday 11 April 2008, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> I like having headers being independend of the order of inclusion.

That's a pretty unusual policy.  Not one that's generally
followed in the kernel, either ... 


> Usually I order all includes alphabetically (and grouped by linux/,
> asm/, etc.). 

If you like alphabetical, why the exception for <asm/...> ??
:)


> This doesn't work with gpio.h because then kernel.h is 
> included to late.

So include <linux/kernel.h> first.  There *is* a policy
of avoiding extra #includes ... extras slow down builds.

- Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-11 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-11  8:24 [PATCH] GPIO: #include <linux/kernel.h> for might_sleep Uwe Kleine-König
2008-04-11 10:46 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-04-11 17:05 ` David Brownell [this message]
2008-04-15  7:36   ` Uwe Kleine-König

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