Re: [PATCH 4.10-rc3 00/13] net: dsa: remove unnecessary phy.h include

[Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>]

On 01/31/2017 11:17 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 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.
> 
> In order to make this change, several drivers need to be updated to
> include necessary headers that they were picking up through this
> include.  This has resulted in a much larger patch series.
> 
> I'm assuming the 0-day builder has had 24 hours with this series, and
> hasn't reported any further issues with it - the last issue was two
> weeks ago (before I became ill) which I fixed over the last weekend.
> 
> I'm hoping this doesn't conflict with what's already in net-next...

For the entire series:

Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>

Thanks a lot for doing that.

> 
>  arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-platform.c             | 4 ----
>  drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/mv88e6xxx.h                 | 1 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c                 | 2 ++
>  drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h                   | 2 ++
>  drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c       | 1 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c    | 1 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_console.c | 1 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_memac.c      | 1 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c                 | 1 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/emac/emac-sgmii.c       | 1 +
>  drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c                             | 1 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ahb.c                  | 2 +-
>  drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c             | 1 +
>  include/net/dsa.h                                     | 6 ++++--
>  net/core/netprio_cgroup.c                             | 1 +
>  net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_backchannel.c            | 1 +
>  16 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 


-- 
Florian