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Date:      Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:59:05 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To:        Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-projects@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r197638 - projects/tcp_ffcaia2008_8.x/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <20090930203736.D1368@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200909300953.n8U9r3Oo011112@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <200909300953.n8U9r3Oo011112@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Lawrence Stewart wrote:

> Log:
>  Alphabetically order includes.
> ...
> Modified: projects/tcp_ffcaia2008_8.x/sys/kern/kern_alq.c
> ==============================================================================
> --- projects/tcp_ffcaia2008_8.x/sys/kern/kern_alq.c	Wed Sep 30 08:48:59 2009	(r197637)
> +++ projects/tcp_ffcaia2008_8.x/sys/kern/kern_alq.c	Wed Sep 30 09:53:03 2009	(r197638)
> @@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
> #include "opt_mac.h"
>
> #include <sys/param.h>
> -#include <sys/systm.h>
> +#include <sys/alq.h>
> +#include <sys/eventhandler.h>
> +#include <sys/fcntl.h>
> #include <sys/kernel.h>
> #include <sys/kthread.h>
> #include <sys/lock.h>
> @@ -44,12 +46,9 @@ __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
> #include <sys/mutex.h>
> #include <sys/namei.h>
> #include <sys/proc.h>
> -#include <sys/vnode.h>
> -#include <sys/alq.h>
> -#include <sys/malloc.h>
> +#include <sys/systm.h>
> ...

<sys/systm.h> should not be sorted alphabeticaly, since it declares
things like KASSERT() and (by nested includes) hundreds of inline
functions (especially ones in <machine/atomic.h>, <machine/cpufunc.h>
and <sys/libkern.h>) which are used in many other headers.  It should
be sorted immediately after <sys/param.h> where it was.

Mis-sorting it is sometimes masked by namespace pollution in other
headers.  <sys/mbuf.h> has the grossest namespace pollution despite
me once completely cleaning it up :-(.  It now includes <sys/systm.h>
and <vm/uma.h>.  (<vm/uma.h> is even more disgusting.  It starts by
including <sys/param.h> and says that this is "/* for NULL */", despite
there being a whole header <sys/_null.h> for the purpose of defining
NULL and thus avoiding namespace which would be caused by defining
NULL in a more central header, and despite it using _much_ more of
<sys/param.h> than the definition of NULL.)  But most headers aren't
as bad.  Thus sorting <sys/systm.h> alphabetically (near the end)
rarely works, and even when it works it is fragile and will break when
a header sorted before it starts using KASSERT().

Bruce



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