On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Pravin Shelar <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Jesse Gross <[email protected]> wrote:
>> You remove a lot of included header files throughout this patch.  How
>> did you come up with the list?  It seems like the minimum set but
>> usually the rule is that if you use something directly then you should
>> include the header file even if something else that you use also
>> happens to include it.
>
> Yes, it is minimum set.
> I am not sure why do we need to include header even if it is included
> indirectly.

Because it makes it really sensitive to changes in the implementation
of other components of the system, kernel configuration, architecture,
etc.

See here for some discussion:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/9/63
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