From: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
mst@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vhost: Drop linux/socket.h
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:27:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130816012743.GA5944@hj.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130815.140740.1781732332793977170.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 02:07:40PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:20:16 +0800
>
> > memcpy_fromiovec is moved to lib/iovec.c. No need to include
> > linux/socket.h for it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
>
> You can't do this.
>
> Because this file doesn't include the header file that
> provides the declaration, which is linux/uio.h
vhost.c includes drivers/vhost/vhost.h. In drivers/vhost/vhost.h, we
have linux/uio.h included.
> linux/socket.h includes linux/uio.h, so honestly leaving
> things the way they are is a 1000 times better than your
> patch.
Vhost is a separate module and a generic infrastructure which is not
bound to network anymore. I guess it's better to include the real one
instead of the socket one.
--
Asias
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-16 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-15 3:20 [PATCH] vhost: Drop linux/socket.h Asias He
2013-08-15 21:07 ` David Miller
2013-08-16 1:27 ` Asias He [this message]
2013-08-16 7:31 ` David Miller
2013-08-16 9:27 ` Asias He
2013-08-17 5:29 ` David Miller
2013-08-19 1:23 ` [PATCH v2] vhost: Include linux/uio.h instead of linux/socket.h Asias He
2013-08-19 7:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-08-20 22:08 ` David Miller
2013-08-16 9:50 ` [PATCH] vhost: Drop linux/socket.h Michael S. Tsirkin
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