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Re:“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kerne... by AnssiH on Sunday January 02, 2022 @10:22PM (#29776975)
Making implicit deps explicit is only one part of the patchset.

Moving all that header code around between files will conflict with all other code merges that touch those same lines.

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Re:“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kerne... by taeric on Sunday January 02, 2022 @10:51PM (#29777130)
Fair. I'm assuming the patches to update includes covers a wider set than changing the headers themselves.

Though, really, I was just saying why it may not be as bad as it sounds. Can still be bad, of course.

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Re:“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kerne... by hnaccount_rng on Monday January 03, 2022 @05:00AM (#29779084)
FTA:

> - As to maintenance overhead: it was surprisingly low overhead to keep dependencies at a minimum across upstream kernel releases - there were tyically just around ~5 dependency additions that need to be addressed. This makes me hopeful that an optimal 'fast' state of header dependencies can be maintained going forward - once the initial set of fixes are in of course.

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