From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751317AbaHQJdu (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2014 05:33:50 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f176.google.com ([209.85.217.176]:59382 "EHLO mail-lb0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751092AbaHQJdt (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2014 05:33:49 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 12:33:48 +0300 From: Alexey Dobriyan To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] headers: remove fs.h from poll.h Message-ID: <20140817093348.GA25122@p183.telecom.by> References: <20140816233746.GA32332@p183.telecom.by> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 06:41:35PM -0600, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Doors this actually help anything? fs.h tends to get included other ways > anyway, and the double inclusion protection means that the compiler doesn't > even spend extra time on it.. > > IOW, I'd like to see "this improves compile times by xyz" or some other > explanation. This particular patch doesn't change situation because it is so small and removes only one header from one file. I can send bigger patch removing fs.h from many possible places. Alexey