linux-kernel - Re: header circular dependencies

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Message-ID: <CAHp75VeQcD5Git6sgsrwCkW+AHPxPhvHZD4kuOt6o0PZsjjPdg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 22 Dec 2021 21:10:38 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: header circular dependencies

On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 9:08 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@...il.com> wrote:
>
> `make headerdep` is full of printk.h circular dependencies, like
>
> include/kvm/arm_vgic.h:18: warning: recursive header inclusion

For the clearness, 18 here is with one of my (not related to printk,h)
patches, but the line in question is inclusion of jump_label.h. In the
original code it's 16.

> In file included from linux/printk.h,
>                 from linux/dynamic_debug.h:188
>                 from linux/printk.h:555 <-- here
>
> I'm wondering if it's a false positive?
> In either case, can we teach the headerdep not to complain by fixing
> the culprit?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko