From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE131C433EF for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2021 15:49:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A3BC619FA for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2021 15:49:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S236024AbhKSPwl (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2021 10:52:41 -0500 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:27637 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229936AbhKSPwk (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2021 10:52:40 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6200,9189,10172"; a="234264295" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.87,248,1631602800"; d="scan'208";a="234264295" Received: from orsmga008.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.65]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 19 Nov 2021 07:49:38 -0800 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.87,248,1631602800"; d="scan'208";a="507943302" Received: from smile.fi.intel.com ([10.237.72.184]) by orsmga008-auth.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 19 Nov 2021 07:49:37 -0800 Received: from andy by smile.fi.intel.com with local (Exim 4.95) (envelope-from ) id 1mo68p-008aGa-Rz; Fri, 19 Nov 2021 17:49:31 +0200 Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 17:49:31 +0200 From: Andy Shevchenko To: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] Add memberof(), split some headers, and slightly simplify code Message-ID: References: <20211119113644.1600-1-alx.manpages@gmail.com> <434296d3-8fe1-f1d2-ee9d-ea25d6c4e43e@gmail.com> <4a39bc52-53ff-ca79-8d34-4310b2894f43@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4a39bc52-53ff-ca79-8d34-4310b2894f43@gmail.com> Organization: Intel Finland Oy - BIC 0357606-4 - Westendinkatu 7, 02160 Espoo Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 04:43:04PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > On 11/19/21 16:38, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > > On 11/19/21 16:34, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 04:06:27PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > >>> Yes, I would like to untangle the dependencies. > >>> > >>> The main reason I started doing this splitting > >>> is because I wouldn't be able to include > >>> in some headers, > >>> because it pulled too much stuff that broke unrelated things. > >>> > >>> So that's why I started from there. > >>> > >>> I for example would like to get NULL in memberof() > >>> without puling anything else, > >>> so makes sense for that. > >> > >> I don't believe that the code that uses NULL won't include types.h. > > > > I'm not sure about the error I got (I didn't write it down), > > but I got a compilation error. > > That's why I split NULL. > > Now that I think about it twice, > since I'm rewriting these changes from scratch, > I think the error might have been > not due to pulling too much stuff, > but due to circular dependencies. > > Having more granularity > helps precisely define the dependencies. > > I think the problem was in > requiring NULL from > requiring memberof() from > or something like that. There is no memberof.h in the kernel. Something is done wrongly on your series. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko