Hi Marek,
2016-05-11 20:22 GMT+09:00 Marek Vasut marex@denx.de:
Because you want to have definition of every symbol you use in your headers when you include that header. I am not a big fan of huge stack of #include statements in a driver.
Agree. That's why this patch is here.
See this patch. http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/620989/
xhci-dwc3.c needs to include xhci.h, but not usb.h because this driver just wants to register the xHCI controller. It need not know complicated USB protocol things in the first place.
In that case, shouldn't the xhci_register() be in xhci.h instead ?
Ah, right.
That will make APIs clearer, but I cannot touch it because I do not have either time or skill to refactor it.
Your way adds #include <include/usb.h> to xhci.h, so xhci-dwc3.c is compelled to include unnecessary usb.h
It means huge stack of includes you do not like, isn't it?
It does add possibly unused symbols to the namespace, yes. I don't think I really mind this though, since the symbol definition is available when I include xhci.h somewhere.
Right.
But, what I can tell at least is that it would make the compiler to parse additional headers for nothing.