From: Russell King - ARM Linux <li...@armlinux.org.uk> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 21:46:28 +0000
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 04:37:14PM -0500, David Miller wrote: >> From: Russell King - ARM Linux <li...@armlinux.org.uk> >> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:14:03 +0000 >> >> > 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 <rmk+ker...@armlinux.org.uk> >> >> Applied, thanks. > > Hmm, now that's _really_ interesting. It got reviewed-by and seemed reasonable. I am always allowed to use my judgment to turn an RFC into a patch I actually apply, especially when other developers review the change. If you read your email now you'll see that I reverted it before pushing it out, because of the fallout you mention.
