[PATCH] gpio: drop unnecessary includes from include/linux/gpio/driver.h

Thor Thayer thor.thayer at linux.intel.com
Tue Aug 1 11:57:59 PDT 2017


On 07/03/2017 10:53 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Some of include directives in include/linux/gpio/driver.h are
> unneeded because the header does not need to know the content of
> struct device, irq_chip, etc.  Just declare they are structures.
> 
> On the other hand, <linux/irqhandler.h> and <linux/spinlock_types.h>
> turned out to be necessary for irq_flow_handler_t and spinlock_t,
> respectively.
> 
> Each driver should include what it needs without relying on what is
> implicitly included from <linux/gpio/driver.h>.  This will cut down
> unnecessary header parsing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
> ---
> 
>   drivers/gpio/gpio-altera-a10sr.c |  2 ++
>   drivers/gpio/gpio-altera.c       |  3 +++

For the Altera GPIO files:

Acked-by: Thor Thayer <thor.thayer at linux.intel.com>



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