Re: [patch,rfc] make depencies on header files explicit

[Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>]

Hi Tim,

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 23:45:19 +0200 (CEST) Tim Schmielau
<tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> wrote:
>
> It seems to be quite common to assume that sched.h and all the other 
> headers it drags in are available without declaration anyways. Since
> I aim at invalidating this assumption by removing all unneccessary 
> includes, I have started to make dependencies on header files included
> by sched.h explicit.
> This is, again, just a small start, a patch covering the whole include/
> subtree would be approximately 25 times as large. However, before I'll
> dig into this further, I'd like to make sure I haven't missed some
> implicit rules about which headers might be assumed available, or should
> be included by the importing .c file, or something like that.
> So any comments about this project are welcome.

Let me encourage you!  IMHO any source file (and here I include header
files) should include all the header files it depends on.  This gives us
at least some chance of keeping the headers consistant with their usage.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/