Re: [PATCH RFC] net: dsa: remove unnecessary phy.h include
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Date: 2017-01-18 22:09:28
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 04:37:14PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:14:03 +0000quoted
Including phy.h and phy_fixed.h into net/dsa.h causes phy*.h to be an unnecessary dependency for quite a large amount of the kernel. There's very little which actually requires definitions from phy.h in net/dsa.h - the include itself only wants the declaration of a couple of structures and IFNAMSIZ. Add linux/if.h for IFNAMSIZ, declarations for the structures, phy.h to mv88e6xxx.h as it needs it for phy_interface_t, and remove both phy.h and phy_fixed.h from net/dsa.h. This patch reduces from around 800 files rebuilt to around 40 - even with ccache, the time difference is noticable. Signed-off-by: Russell King <redacted>Applied, thanks.
Hmm, now that's _really_ interesting. I think you've said to others to send patches with RFC in them when they aren't to be applied. I sent this with RFC in, and it still got applied. This is _really_ unfortunate, as the 0-day builder has been sending me a stream of build errors over it, and I now have a branch with 9 patches plus this one in fixing those errors... And I did say in the comments below the --- that it should be left a few days for the 0-day builder to run through it and find those errors. Ho hum. -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net.