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Date:	Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:15:13 +0300
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christine Caulfield <caulfie@...hat.com>,
	David Teigland <teigland@...hat.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] include <linux/types.h> into linux/dlm_plock.h for
	__u* typedef

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 05:11:58PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 03:55:04PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:14:50PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 02:22:04PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > > > --- a/include/linux/dlm_plock.h
> > > > +++ b/include/linux/dlm_plock.h
> > > 
> > > > +#include <linux/types.h>
> > > 
> > > I'd say that unless you can demonstrate compilation breakage, these will
> > > only slow down compilation.
> > 
> > Do you think that minor slow down is worse than dependence on the order of
> > inclusion?
> 
> Since it compiles fine there is no such dependency.

It doesn't compiles:

$ make headers_install
...
$ gcc usr/include/linux/dlm_plock.h
usr/include/linux/dlm_plock.h:25: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list
before ‘__u32’

> Just removing externs from function prototypes makes compiles go faster for
> _seconds_.

-- 
Regards,  Kirill A. Shutemov
 + Belarus, Minsk
 + ALT Linux Team, http://www.altlinux.com/

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