Re: [PATCH] remove 556 unneeded #includes of sched.h

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu Dec 28 2006 - 16:08:24 EST


On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 09:58:17PM +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:27:40 +0100 (CET)
> > Tim Schmielau <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in
> > > module.h recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous
> > > sched.h includes.
> >
> > Why are they "superfluous"? Because those compilation
> > units pick up sched.h indirectly, via other includes?
> >
> > If so, is that a thing we want to do?
>
> No, there is nothing at all in these files that needs sched.h. I suppose
> the includes are left over from times when more unrelated macros lived in
> sched.h (fortunately much of that cruft got cleand up already).

Uh-huh. How much of build coverage have you got with it? Note that
"doesn't use symbols defined in sched.h" != "can remove include of
sched.h", which, in turn, is not the same as "removing it doesn't
cause problems on a couple of configs I've tried on amd64".
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