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Date:	Wed, 2 Jul 2014 16:09:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] headers: remove fs.h from poll.h

On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> fs.h inclusion is unnecessary because it is only needed
> for "struct file" forward declaration.
> 
> Those fs.h inclusions are fixing inevitable compilation failures.
> There maybe more compilation failures.
> 
> What I did to get 2000 number is:
> * make allmodconfig
> * make
> * touch include/linux/fs.h
> * make
> * [count how many files were rebuilt]
> 
> After more header tweaking the number of files that were rebuilt dropped
> by ~2000 but code still compiles, which means fs.h inclusions were useless.
> 

Lots of #ifdefs in fs.h, I hope your series includes building for all 
possible combinations.

> This is first patch in series. Same thing we did with sched.h earlier.
> 

Is it possible to post the whole series together so it makes sense and 
it's possible to put it through some thorough build testing?  If you can 
point me to a git tree that I can pull, then I can do that on 
infrastructure that I have probably quicker than most.
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