linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] headers: remove fs.h from poll.h

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1408171544290.9160@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:45:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] headers: remove fs.h from poll.h

On Sun, 17 Aug 2014, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> > Doors this actually help anything? fs.h tends to get included other ways
> > anyway, and the double inclusion protection means that the compiler doesn't
> > even spend extra time on it..
> > 
> > IOW, I'd like to see "this improves compile times by xyz" or some other
> > explanation.
> 
> This particular patch doesn't change situation because it is so small and
> removes only one header from one file.
> 
> I can send bigger patch removing fs.h from many possible places.
> 

I extensively build tested your series before and reported the single 
point of failure.  Once that's fixed and the patches have appropriate 
changelogs and signed-off-by lines then I can build test and push them for 
either Andrew or Linus.
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