linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH linux v7 6/6] hwmon: occ: Add callbacks for parsing P9 OCC datastructures

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Message-ID: <1486949370.3661.5.camel@aj.id.au>
Date:   Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:59:30 +1030
From:   Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>
To:     Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>, eajames <eajames@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, jdelvare@...e.com, corbet@....net,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        "Edward A. James" <eajames@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux v7 6/6] hwmon: occ: Add callbacks for parsing P9
 OCC datastructures

On Fri, 2017-02-10 at 16:01 +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > +
> > +#ifndef __OCC_P9_H__
> > +#define __OCC_P9_H__
> > +
> > +#include "scom.h"
> > +
> > +struct device;
> 
> Include the header for struct device instead.
> 
> Did you consider the one header file for all of your shared functions?
> I don't think there's much value in having a whole heap of small ones.

My bias is against monolithic headers. While it would be no
linux/sched.h[1] so the impact won't be great, I prefer keeping headers
to only describing the abstract data type at hand. A collection of
small, relevant headers makes it easier for me to understand the
abstraction boundaries.

Andrew

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/713712/
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