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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-02-02 16:44:14 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-02-03 12:10:09 -0800 |
commit | 23c35f48f5fbe33f68904138b23fee64df7d2f0f (patch) | |
tree | 317664ec9bd9a3d2d51147da8828b4352fa356a9 /include/linux/device.h | |
parent | d3581c8ef718ae1b03e9106446ddf76b77026895 (diff) | |
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pinctrl: remove include file from <linux/device.h>
When pulling the recent pinctrl merge, I was surprised by how a
pinctrl-only pull request ended up rebuilding basically the whole
kernel.
The reason for that ended up being that <linux/device.h> included
<linux/pinctrl/devinfo.h>, so any change to that file ended up causing
pretty much every driver out there to be rebuilt.
The reason for that was because 'struct device' has this in it:
#ifdef CONFIG_PINCTRL
struct dev_pin_info *pins;
#endif
but we already avoid header includes for these kinds of things in that
header file, preferring to just use a forward-declaration of the
structure instead. Exactly to avoid this kind of header dependency.
Since some drivers seem to expect that <linux/pinctrl/devinfo.h> header
to come in automatically, move the include to <linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h>
instead. It might be better to just make the includes more targeted,
but I'm not going to review every driver.
It would definitely be good to have a tool for finding and minimizing
header dependencies automatically - or at least help with them. Right
now we almost certainly end up having way too many of these things, and
it's hard to test every single configuration.
FWIW, you can get a sense of the "hotness" of a header file with something
like this after doing a full build:
find . -name '.*.o.cmd' -print0 |
xargs -0 tail --lines=+2 |
grep -v 'wildcard ' |
tr ' \\' '\n' |
sort | uniq -c | sort -n | less -S
which isn't exact (there are other things in those '*.o.cmd' than just
the dependencies, and the "--lines=+2" only removes the header), but
might a useful approximation.
With this patch, <linux/pinctrl/devinfo.h> drops to "only" having 833
users in the current x86-64 allmodconfig. In contrast, <linux/device.h>
has 14857 build files including it directly or indirectly.
Of course, the headers that absolutely _everybody_ includes (things like
<linux/types.h> etc) get a score of 23000+.
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/device.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/device.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h index f649fc0c2571..b093405ed525 100644 --- a/include/linux/device.h +++ b/include/linux/device.h @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ #include <linux/compiler.h> #include <linux/types.h> #include <linux/mutex.h> -#include <linux/pinctrl/devinfo.h> #include <linux/pm.h> #include <linux/atomic.h> #include <linux/ratelimit.h> @@ -41,6 +40,7 @@ struct fwnode_handle; struct iommu_ops; struct iommu_group; struct iommu_fwspec; +struct dev_pin_info; struct bus_attribute { struct attribute attr; |