On Wed, 2018-10-24 at 13:13 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 12:23:13PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > Until such a time when either a local preferred style > > document or a treewide preferred style exists, please > > stop asking people to modify #include ordering for > > various styles like reverse christmas tree by length, > > alphabetic ordering, or other individual styles. > > Why? It makes a sense to ask for new code (and even for patches against old one in some cases). It's just a nit and frequently impossible to require as ordering dependencies between include files do exist. > > My preferred style would always have kernel.h first > > as that may help with precompiled headers and overall > > kernel compilation time one day. > > How ordering would screw this up? gcc has many limits on the use of precompiled headers. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Precompiled-Headers.html Precompiled headers are often shared by multiple compilation units and precompilation can be stopped after a specific header.