netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: remove mm.h inclusion from netdevice.h

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Message-Id: <20110621.162507.453473443486815179.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:25:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	adobriyan@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: remove mm.h inclusion from netdevice.h

From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:01:34 +0300

> Remove linux/mm.h inclusion from netdevice.h -- it's unused (I've checked manually).
> 
> To prevent mm.h inclusion via other channels also extract "enum dma_data_direction"
> definition into separate header. This tiny piece is what gluing netdevice.h with mm.h
> via "netdevice.h => dmaengine.h => dma-mapping.h => scatterlist.h => mm.h".
> Removal of mm.h from scatterlist.h was tried and was found not feasible
> on most archs, so the link was cutoff earlier.
> 
> Hope people are OK with tiny include file.
> 
> Note, that mm_types.h is still dragged in, but it is a separate story.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>

I've applied this, thanks.
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