From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 22:10:06 +0900 From: Yasunori Goto Subject: Re: [RFC] Circular include dependencies In-Reply-To: <20080523181728.b30409b2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080523132034.GB15384@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20080523181728.b30409b2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-Id: <20080526195803.F779.E1E9C6FF@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Russell King , Linux Kernel List , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > On Fri, 23 May 2008 14:20:34 +0100 Russell King wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Having discovered some circular include dependencies in the ARM header > > files which were causing build issues, I created a script to walk ARM > > includes and report any similar issues found - which includes traversing > > any referenced linux/ includes. > > > > It identified the following two in include/linux/: > > > > linux/mmzone.h <- linux/memory_hotplug.h <- linux/mmzone.h > > linux/mmzone.h <- linux/topology.h <- linux/mmzone.h > > > > Checking them by hand reveals that these are real. Whether they're > > capable of causing a problem or not, I'm not going to comment on. > > However, they're not a good idea and someone should probably look at > > resolving the loops. > > (cc's added). > > Thanks. > > I'm not sure who we could tap for the topology.h one. > > A suitable (and often good) way of solving this is to identify the > things which a.h needs from b.h and hoist them out into a new c.h and > include that from both a.h and b.h. Kame-san and I reviewed memory_hotplug.h. We found its including was not necessary certainly. This is the patch to fix it. I tested on IA64, and checked cross-compile on powerpc. Kame-san tested this on x86-64. Thanks for your report. Bye. ---- Fix no need including of mmzone.h in memory_hotplug.h Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto --- include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) Index: dptest/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h =================================================================== --- dptest.orig/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h 2008-05-21 10:56:00.000000000 +0900 +++ dptest/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h 2008-05-26 20:32:06.000000000 +0900 @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ #ifndef __LINUX_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_H #define __LINUX_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_H -#include #include #include -- Yasunori Goto -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org