From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: linux@armlinux.org.uk
Cc: andrew@lunn.ch, vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com,
f.fainelli@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] net: dsa: remove unnecessary phy.h include
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 16:37:14 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170118.163714.6755964924380784.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170118001403.GJ27312@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:14:03 +0000
> Including phy.h and phy_fixed.h into net/dsa.h causes phy*.h to be an
> unnecessary dependency for quite a large amount of the kernel. There's
> very little which actually requires definitions from phy.h in net/dsa.h
> - the include itself only wants the declaration of a couple of
> structures and IFNAMSIZ.
>
> Add linux/if.h for IFNAMSIZ, declarations for the structures, phy.h to
> mv88e6xxx.h as it needs it for phy_interface_t, and remove both phy.h
> and phy_fixed.h from net/dsa.h.
>
> This patch reduces from around 800 files rebuilt to around 40 - even
> with ccache, the time difference is noticable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Applied, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-18 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-18 0:14 Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-01-18 1:11 ` Vivien Didelot
2017-01-18 1:13 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-01-18 21:37 ` David Miller [this message]
2017-01-18 21:46 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-01-18 21:48 ` David Miller
2017-01-18 21:47 ` David Miller
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