Re: [PATCH 00/17] Add memberof(), split some headers, and slightly simplify code

[Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)]

[trimmed CC]

On 11/19/21 16:38, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> On 11/19/21 16:34, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 04:06:27PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
>>> Yes, I would like to untangle the dependencies.
>>>
>>> The main reason I started doing this splitting
>>> is because I wouldn't be able to include
>>> <linux/stddef.h> in some headers,
>>> because it pulled too much stuff that broke unrelated things.
>>>
>>> So that's why I started from there.
>>>
>>> I for example would like to get NULL in memberof()
>>> without puling anything else,
>>> so <linux/NULL.h> makes sense for that.
>>
>> I don't believe that the code that uses NULL won't include types.h.
> 
> I'm not sure about the error I got (I didn't write it down),
> but I got a compilation error.
> That's why I split NULL.

Now that I think about it twice,
since I'm rewriting these changes from scratch,
I think the error might have been
not due to pulling too much stuff,
but due to circular dependencies.

Having more granularity
helps precisely define the dependencies.

I think the problem was in
<linux/memberof.h> requiring NULL from <linux/stddef.h>
<linux/stddef.h> requiring memberof() from <linux/memberof.h>
or something like that.


Regards,
Alex


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Alejandro Colomar
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