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SubjectRe: [PATCH] missing includes from infiniband merge
On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 09:36:05PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:29:12PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 04:44:16PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > > indirect chains of includes are arch-specific and can't
> > > be relied upon... (hell, even attempt to build it for
> > > itanic would trigger vmalloc.h ones; err.h triggers
> > > on e.g. alpha).
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/infiniband/core/mad_priv.h | 1 +
> > > drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/c2_provider.c | 1 +
> > > drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/c2_rnic.c | 1 +
> > > drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_diag.c | 1 +
> > > 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > A better fix would be to avoid the arch dependency in the non-arch .h
> > files so that in most cases it just works??
>
> What "it"? Use of vmalloc() without including vmalloc.h since on i386
> it just happens to be pulled via the
> linux/pci.h -> linux/dmapool.h -> asm-i386/io.h -> linux/vmalloc.h
> chain?

BTW, to do what you suggest we would mean the following:

let H(arch,foo) = {bar | asm-arch/foo.h pulls asm-arch/bar.h via chain that
doesn't include linux/*}
let M(arch,foo) = {baz | asm-arch/bar.h includes linux/baz.h for some bar in
H(arch,foo)}
let L(foo) = union of M(arch,foo) by all arch.
make sure that for each arch and for each bar in L(foo) we have asm-arch/foo.h
pulling linux/bar.h

Have fun doing that and maintaining the results. Note that addition of
include between asm-weird-crap/foo.h and asm-weird-crap/bar.h will require
changes all over the place in asm-*/* - not only for asm-*/foo.h.

It won't be pretty, it will be hell to even try to clean dependencies
_and_ it will break all the time due to ordering requirements.
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