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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/2] crypto: qat - refactor included headers
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Hi Herbert,

On 2023-08-31 05:55, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 05:08:37PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>
>> Do I understand correctly that you want *ideally* to have THE kernel.h
>> as a _single_ header and that's it?
>
> My rule of thumb for a .c file is that if you need more than two
> headers directly included by kernel.h then you should just use
> kernel.h.
>
>> While I understand your motivation as a maintainer, I hate the idea of current
>> kernel.h to be included as a silver bullet to every file because people are not
>> capable to understand this C language part of design. The usage of the proper
>> headers show that developer _thought_ very well about what they are doing in
>> the driver. Neglecting this affects the quality of the code in my opinion.
>> That's why I strongly recommend to avoid kernel.h inclusion unless it's indeed
>> the one that provides something that is used in the driver. Even though, the
>> rest headers also need to be included (as it wasn't done by kernel.h at any
>> circumstances).
>
> I have no qualms with fixing header files that include kernel.h
> to include whatever it is that they need directly. That is a
> worthy goal and should be enforced for all new header files.
>
> I just don't share your enthusiasm about doing the same for .c
> files.

<https://include-what-you-use.org/

Maybe this is helpful, if you didn't know about it. :)
(I disagree with the forward declarations that are recommended there,
though.)

Cheers,
Alex

>
> Cheers,

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