Re: [PATCH] kfifo: don't include dma-mapping.h in kfifo.h

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 09:53:52AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> DMA_MAPPING_ERROR is never used by kfifo.h itself.  It is used
>> by user of the header that instanciate one of the macros that use
>> it.
>
> Well, I don't understand. Looking at:
> #define kfifo_dma_in_prepare(fifo, sgl, nents, len) \
>         kfifo_dma_in_prepare_mapped(fifo, sgl, nents, len, 
> DMA_MAPPING_ERROR)
>
> You'd have to include dma-mapping.h if you used this macro.

Yes, obviously.

> Even though you 
> do not explicitly use any other def from the dma header.

Sure.

> Well, this is not a definition of self-containment.

Yes, it is the exact definition of it.

> If you use every macro 
> from a header and it does not need any other include, then it is 
> self-contained.

No, that goes way beyond the self containedness.  In fact these days
the main reason to use macros is exactly to avoid these kinds of
dependencies.