Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] leds: upboard: Add LED support

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Oct 24 2018 - 06:24:51 EST


On Wed, 2018-10-24 at 13:13 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 12:23:13PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Until such a time when either a local preferred style
> > document or a treewide preferred style exists, please
> > stop asking people to modify #include ordering for
> > various styles like reverse christmas tree by length,
> > alphabetic ordering, or other individual styles.
>
> Why? It makes a sense to ask for new code (and even for patches against old one in some cases).

It's just a nit and frequently impossible to require as
ordering dependencies between include files do exist.

> > My preferred style would always have kernel.h first
> > as that may help with precompiled headers and overall
> > kernel compilation time one day.
>
> How ordering would screw this up?

gcc has many limits on the use of precompiled headers.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Precompiled-Headers.html

Precompiled headers are often shared by multiple
compilation units and precompilation can be stopped
after a specific header.