Re: [PATCH linux v7 6/6] hwmon: occ: Add callbacks for parsing P9 OCC datastructures

From: Andrew Jeffery
Date: Sun Feb 12 2017 - 20:30:03 EST


On Fri, 2017-02-10 at 16:01 +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > +
> > +#ifndef __OCC_P9_H__
> > +#define __OCC_P9_H__
> > +
> > +#include "scom.h"
> > +
> > +struct device;
>
> Include the header for struct device instead.
>
> Did you consider the one header file for all of your shared functions?
> I don't think there's much value in having a whole heap of small ones.

My bias is against monolithic headers. While it would be no
linux/sched.h[1] so the impact won't be great, I prefer keeping headers
to only describing the abstract data type at hand. A collection of
small, relevant headers makes it easier for me to understand the
abstraction boundaries.

Andrew

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/713712/

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