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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-02-02 16:44:14 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-02-03 12:10:09 -0800
commit23c35f48f5fbe33f68904138b23fee64df7d2f0f (patch)
tree317664ec9bd9a3d2d51147da8828b4352fa356a9 /include/linux
parentd3581c8ef718ae1b03e9106446ddf76b77026895 (diff)
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')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/device.h2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h1
2 files changed, 2 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;
diff --git a/include/linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h b/include/linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h
index 5e45385c5bdc..8f5dbb84547a 100644
--- a/include/linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h
+++ b/include/linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <linux/pinctrl/pinctrl-state.h>
+#include <linux/pinctrl/devinfo.h>
struct device;
struct pinctrl_dev;