Re: [GIT PULL] LED updates for 5.4-rc1

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On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 06:13:09PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 3:21 PM Jacek Anaszewski
> <jacek.anaszewski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > There is one merge of tag with generic_lookup_helpers since
> > LED class has been made using class_find_device_by_name() helper:
> >
> >     Merge tag 'generic_lookup_helpers' into for-next
> >     platform: Add platform_find_device_by_driver() helper
> >     drivers: Add generic helper to match any device
> >     drivers: Introduce device lookup variants by ACPI_COMPANION device
> >     drivers: Introduce device lookup variants by device type
> >     drivers: Introduce device lookup variants by fwnode
> >     drivers: Introduce device lookup variants by of_node
> >     drivers: Introduce device lookup variants by name
> 
> So this is fine and I've pulled it, but I have to say that I
> absolutely detest how this device.h header keeps just growing
> endlessly:
> 
>   [torvalds@linux]$ wc include/linux/device.h
>    1921  8252 66021 include/linux/device.h
> 
> that's almost 2k of header file, and it's included a _lot_:
> 
>   [torvalds@linux]$ git grep include.*linux/device.h | wc
>    2518    5085  144875
> 
> and many of those includes are actually from other core header files,
> so it's effectively included from even more trees.
> 
> Yes, yes, many of those 2k lines are comments. But still... Do we
> really want to have that humongous 65kB, 2kloc header file, and keep
> growing it forever?
> 
> Greg?

Yeah, it is getting big, I'll look into splitting it up.

thanks,

greg k-h


> 
>                   Linus



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