Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756235AbYCNIIl (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:08:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752116AbYCNII2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:08:28 -0400 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]:52766 "EHLO astoria.ccjclearline.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751703AbYCNII1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:08:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:07:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: mws@twisted-brains.org cc: Jesper Juhl , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: whose job is it to include various header files? In-Reply-To: <47DA1F8B.7040400@twisted-brains.org> Message-ID: References: <9a8748490803131653n7f1c2bd0m12e30d82bf936d03@mail.gmail.com> <47DA1F8B.7040400@twisted-brains.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1135 Lines: 28 On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, mws@twisted-brains.org wrote: > what i said in my first sentence is the imho proper way: if you > alter sources and includes get obsolete, remove them and fix > compiling again for files that formerly depended (implicit or > explicit) on this altered sources. not to much work for the > developer himself and also not exhausting the compile times. and, in my defense, that's what i *thought* i was doing, not having noticed that one of those "unnecessary" #includes really was required after all. argh. that was embarrassing. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/