linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] lib/vsprintf: Split out sprintf() and friends

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Date:   Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:17:34 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] lib/vsprintf: Split out sprintf() and friends

On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 11:09:20AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 10/08/2023 10.15, Petr Mladek wrote:

...

> >     + prolonging the list of #include lines in .c file. It will
> >       not help with maintainability which was one of the motivation
> >       in this patchset.
> 
> We really have to stop pretending it's ok to rely on header a.h
> automatically pulling in b.h, if a .c file actually uses something
> declared in b.h. [Of course, the reality is more complicated; e.g. we
> have many cases where one must include linux/foo.h, not asm/foo.h, but
> the actual declarations are in the appropriate arch-specific file.
> However, we should not rely on linux/bar.h pulling in linux/foo.h.]

Btw, it's easy to enforce IIUC, i.e. by dropping

  #ifndef _FOO_H
  #define _FOO_H
  #endif

mantra from the headers.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko