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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1106210854370.23091@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:58:24 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dmitry Kozlov <xeb@...l.ru>,
	netfilter@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [netfilter-core] [PATCH] Remove redundant linux/version.h includes
 from net/

On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> It was suggested by "make versioncheck" that the follwing includes of
> linux/version.h are redundant:
> 
>   /home/jj/src/linux-2.6/net/caif/caif_dev.c: 14 linux/version.h not needed.
>   /home/jj/src/linux-2.6/net/caif/chnl_net.c: 10 linux/version.h not needed.
>   /home/jj/src/linux-2.6/net/ipv4/gre.c: 19 linux/version.h not needed.
>   /home/jj/src/linux-2.6/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c: 20 linux/version.h not needed.
>   /home/jj/src/linux-2.6/net/netfilter/xt_set.c: 16 linux/version.h not needed.
> 
> and it seems that it is right.
> 
> Beyond manually inspecting the source files I also did a few build
> tests with various configs to confirm that including the header in
> those files is indeed not needed.
> 
> Here's a patch to remove the pointless includes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
> ---
>  net/caif/caif_dev.c               |    1 -
>  net/caif/chnl_net.c               |    1 -
>  net/ipv4/gre.c                    |    1 -
>  net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c |    1 -
>  net/netfilter/xt_set.c            |    1 -
>  5 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

For ipset/xt_set.c:

Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>

Best regards,
Jozsef
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