On Wed 29-11-17 16:58:17, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 09:55:17PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote: > > The <linux/bug.h> was removed from radix-tree.h by the following commit: > > f5bba9d11a256ad2a1c2f8e7fc6aabe6416b7890. > > > > Since that commit, tools/testing/radix-tree/ couldn't pass compilation > > due to: tools/testing/radix-tree/idr.c:17: undefined reference to > > WARN_ON_ONCE. This patch adds the bug.h header to idr.h to solve the > > issue. > > Thanks; I sent this same patch out yesterday. > > Unfortunately, you didn't cc the author of this breakage, Masahiro Yamada. > I want to highlight that these kinds of header cleanups are risky, > and very low reward. I really don't want to see patches going all over > the tree randomly touching header files. If we've got a real problem > to solve, then sure. But I want to see a strong justification for any > more header file cleanups.
I agree. It usually requires unexpected combination of config options to uncover some nasty include dependencies. So these patches might break build while their additional value is quite questionable. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
