Re: [PATCH] clk: mediatek: remove superfluous line including linux/clk-provider.h

[Sean Wang]

On Tue, 2017-12-26 at 17:15 -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 12/25, sean.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Sean Wang <sean.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > clk-mtk.h has already included linux/clk-provider.h inside, so remove
> > the superfluous line including linux/clk-provider.h from these files which
> > also included clk-mtk.h.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sean Wang <sean.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> 
> Please don't do this. If anything, I would remove as many
> includes from clk-mtk.h as possible and forward declare the
> structures used in there so there isn't any header dependency.
> Then it becomes clear which C files are clk-provider drivers
> almost immediately because we have the include in the driver, and
> we also avoid any header dependency chains where we must include
> some header file if we want to get another header file's
> definitions.
> 

Agreed on above. 

It really becomes clearer to know which c files belong
to clock provider driver, not only just considering header dependency.
For these points, it should be kept there.

Thanks for your detailed explanation

	Sean