Re: [PATCH 1/7] media: davinci: vpif: remove unwanted header includes

From: Prabhakar Lad
Date: Fri May 17 2013 - 01:15:53 EST


Hi Laurent,

Thanks for the review.

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Prabhakar,
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> On Thursday 16 May 2013 18:28:16 Lad Prabhakar wrote:
>> From: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpif.c | 7 -------
>> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpif.c
>> b/drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpif.c index ea82a8b..d354d50 100644
>> --- a/drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpif.c
>> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpif.c
>> @@ -17,18 +17,11 @@
>> * GNU General Public License for more details.
>> */
>>
>> -#include <linux/init.h>
>> #include <linux/module.h>
>> #include <linux/platform_device.h>
>> -#include <linux/spinlock.h>
>> -#include <linux/kernel.h>
>> -#include <linux/io.h>
>> -#include <linux/err.h>
>> #include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
>> #include <linux/v4l2-dv-timings.h>
>
> I think you should keep most of those includes. For instance this file uses
> spinlock functions, so linux/spinlock.h should be included. It might work fine
> now due to nested includes, but if someone reorganizes the kernel headers
> internal includes then the driver might break. As a general rule of good
> practice you should include headers for all the APIs you use.
>
OK, do you want me too drop the similar patches from this series ?

Regards,
--Prabhakar Lad
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