linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] remove implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

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Date:	Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:06:27 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] remove implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi> wrote:
>> Alexey Dobriyan kirjoitti:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> We should avoid creating tree-wide breakage for this kind of cleanups.
>>>
>>> This is done by compile testing, not by being smartass.
>>
>> I don't think compile testing is going to scale here because slab is used is
>> so many places of the kernel.
>
> Sigh.
>
> If you want to skip compile testing, just say so in changelog.

Hey, "sigh" right back at you, Alexey!

I am not saying I want to skip "compile testing", I'm just stating the
obvious fact: for a header such as slab.h that's implicitly needed in
pretty much everywhere, it's very difficult to find all the relevant
broken configurations. I don't see the benefit of breaking the world
for this cleanup as Ingo's suggestion will eventually get us to the
exact same situation _without_ causing tree-wide breakage.

                        Pekka
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