Re: [PATCH v13 1/3] x86/tdx: Add TDX Guest attestation interface driver

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Tue Sep 13 2022 - 05:02:45 EST


On 9/12/22 19:44, Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy wrote:
>> and include the header (<linux/string.h> ?) for memchr_inv()?
> One of the previous headers includes linux/string.h (I am not sure which one).
> So why include it explicitly?

Because it's a best practice. What happens is that you ride along on
the coat tails of another #include, someone sees that include is no
longer used and removes it. Then, your code is busted on some weird
.config.

*OR*, the header itself changes and doesn't #include the dependency you
need.

I guess you can go add this advice to Documentation/ if it's not there
already somewhere.