There's nothing in percpu.h that requires an explicit inclusion of
string.h.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]>
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after how hideously i embarrassed myself with that earlier exchange,
i am by god going to get a patch out of this. :-)
compile-tested on x86 after "make allyesconfig", so that deletion
did not appear to cause any breakage anywhere in the tree.
p.s. for the [PATCH] subject line, what kernel subsystem would be
used for things like the header files?
diff --git a/include/linux/percpu.h b/include/linux/percpu.h
index 1ac9697..d746a2a 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu.h
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
#include <linux/preempt.h>
#include <linux/slab.h> /* For kmalloc() */
#include <linux/smp.h>
-#include <linux/string.h> /* For memset() */
#include <linux/cpumask.h>
#include <asm/percpu.h>
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