RE: [PATCH] crypto: remove unnecessary includes
From: Cristian Stoica
Date: Thu Dec 05 2013 - 03:15:11 EST
Hi Herbert,
Your original response was terse and left me more puzzled. Do you have a sensible explanation why some includes should be kept in the source even they serve no purpose during the build?
Thanks,
Cristian S.
> > Just because it compiles it doesn't meant that the files you
> > removed are unnecessary.
> >
> > The only file that is really unnecessary here is spinlock.h.
> >
> []
> OK then, but let's reverse the question. In a construct similar to
> authenc.c, what would be the purpose of slab.h and kernel.h?
> (That leads to the next question which is - what is the purpose of those
> files in authenc.c?)
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