netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] security: bpf: replace include of linux/bpf.h with forward declarations

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Date:   Wed, 1 Nov 2017 11:50:23 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, oss-drivers@...ronome.com,
        daniel@...earbox.net, Chenbo Feng <fengc@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] security: bpf: replace include of linux/bpf.h
 with forward declarations

On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 11:48:00AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Touching linux/bpf.h makes us rebuild a surprisingly large
> portion of the kernel.  Remove the unnecessary dependency
> from security.h, it only needs forward declarations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
> Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@...ronome.com>

Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>

thanks for fixing! I noticed larger rebuilds as well.