Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm tree | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:19:39 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 13:02 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:51:29 -0700 > Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > > > > btw, what's up with printk_syslog.h? It includes two header files which it > > > doesn't need but fails to include the two it *does* need: printk_log.h > > > and types.h. > > > > > > > > > > printk_syslog.c includes kernel.h (it includes types.h) > > and printk_log.h. > > > > I think printk_syslog.h doesn't need printk_log.h > > A general rule is that the header file shouldn't know or care what else > it's includer has included. Ideally it shouldn't know or care what > else its includees have included, either. > > A fun test would be > > for i in *.h > echo $i > foo.c > make foo.o > done
A whole lot of things in include/ fail this.
Do you really think that anything using u8/16/32/64 should include types.h?
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