Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] driver core: Split device data types to device/types.h

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 09:53:17PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 9:44 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > device.h is a huge header which is hard to follow and easy to miss
> > something. Improve that by splitting device data types to device/types.h.
> >
> > In particular this helps to speedup the build of the code that includes
> > device.h solely for a device data types.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> But why do you want to move the struct device definition out of device.h?

Because it's a data type, and we have many drivers that may require it
(embed the struct device), but no device.h API is called directly —
only via a certain framework).

device.h also includes many unrelated headers in such a case.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko