Re: [PATCH 1/3] usb: phy: generic: use forward declarations instead of #includes

[Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>]

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Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> writes:
> In include/linux/usb/usb_phy_generic.h, use a forward declaration for
> struct gpio_desc instead of including linux/gpio/consumer.h.
>
> Of the files that include usb_phy_generic.h, only
> drivers/usb/phy/phy-generic.c uses the gpiod_*() interfaces from
> linux/gpio/consumer.h, so include consumer.h explicitly there.
>
> This is a little more efficient and ensures that users of the gpiod
> interfaces include linux/gpio/consumer.h directly rather than getting it
> accidentally via linux/usb/usb_phy_generic.h.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/phy/phy-generic.c       |    1 +
>  include/linux/usb/usb_phy_generic.h |    3 ++-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/phy/phy-generic.c b/drivers/usb/phy/phy-generic.c
> index 5320cb8..2c1349e 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/phy/phy-generic.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/phy/phy-generic.c
> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
>  #include <linux/of.h>
>  #include <linux/of_gpio.h>
>  #include <linux/gpio.h>
> +#include <linux/gpio/consumer.h>
>  #include <linux/delay.h>
>  
>  #include "phy-generic.h"
> diff --git a/include/linux/usb/usb_phy_generic.h b/include/linux/usb/usb_phy_generic.h
> index c13632d5..45c20060 100644
> --- a/include/linux/usb/usb_phy_generic.h
> +++ b/include/linux/usb/usb_phy_generic.h
> @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
>  #define __LINUX_USB_NOP_XCEIV_H
>  
>  #include <linux/usb/otg.h>
> -#include <linux/gpio/consumer.h>
> +
> +struct gpio_desc;

then someone decides to rename struct gpio_desc and this just becomes
yet another place to fix. Why is this any better than just including the
header ?

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balbi

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