Re: [PATCH] mm: break circular include from linux/mmzone.h

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Feb 05 2013 - 16:18:55 EST


On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:56:36 +0800
li guang <lig.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ___ 2013-02-04______ 21:20 -0800___David Rientjes_________
> > On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, liguang wrote:
> >
> > > linux/mmzone.h included linux/memory_hotplug.h,
> > > and linux/memory_hotplug.h also included
> > > linux/mmzone.h, so there's a bad cirlular.
> > >
> >
> > And both of these are protected by _LINUX_MMZONE_H and
> > __LINUX_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_H, respectively, so what's the problem?
>
> obviously, It's a logical error,
> and It has no more effect other than
> combination of these 2 header files.
> so, why don't we separate them?
>

Yup, flattening the hierarchy is nice. And having headers doing mutual
inclusion like this is Just Weird.

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