Re: [PATCH] proc: use #pragma once

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Thu Apr 26 2018 - 15:24:53 EST


On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:26:29PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:55:31PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 06:54:09AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 12:35:34AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > > Bring /proc into 21st century.
> > >
> > > Please explain what this actually buys us except for being pointlessly
> > > different from the rest of the kernel?
> >
> > Negative LOC diff, less junk in preprocessor hashtables.
>
> There are about 20k header files, none of them has #pragma once.
> Updating that will bring many unnesessry git commits.

If you don't obey sometimes silly rule re splitting patches,
it can be done in much less.

> I doubt that one more define in preprocessor tables is a problem we
> should fix.

Those eat cycles and memory one define at a time.

> The LOC argument also does not sound very convincing.

When was the last time you did -80 kLOC patch for free?

> The include protection is at the top of the file, not mixed among other
> code. Replacing 2-3 lines with one will be barely noticeable.