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>> This kids is exactly why nobody maintains out-of-tree kernel drivers.

After this it should be easier to maintain out of tree stuff since it eliminates "dependency hell".




The dependency hell is not the kind of dependency hell where it's difficult to work on the code because including something might break something else. The dependency hell described in this email is to do with headers including headers including headers, eventually including a large quantity of text (which now has to be parsed) most of which is unnecessary. The only problem this "dependency hell" causes for out-of-tree modules is that builds take a bit longer. The fixes to this dependency hell are not going to make out-of-tree modules work better, they're likely going to break them in a lot of ways due to the many implicitly included headers they happen to have.




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