[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 3/4] drivers/infiniband: Drop redundant includes of moduleparam.h
Julia Lawall
julia at diku.dk
Wed Nov 14 13:18:07 PST 2007
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > Drop #include <linux/moduleparam.h> in files that also include #include
> > <linux/module.h>. module.h includes moduleparam.h already.
>
> Do we want to make this sort of source code change? I thought that
> the consensus about the kernel was that we wanted to avoid relying of
> implicit includes of <Y.h> by <X.h> -- in this case a better change
> would actually seem to be to explicitly include moduleparam.h in files
> using module parameters and then remove the include from module.h.
Someone else made a similar comment, so it seems reasonable to forget
about the patches.
I could easily make a patch to go the other way if there is an interest in
that. On the other hand, perhaps the concensus is to just leave things
as they are.
julia
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