itself doesn't use any of the device id structures. The files #including use a variety of them: $ git grep -l '' | xargs grep --color -E '\<(acpi_device_id|amba_id|ap_device_id|apr_device_id|auxiliary_device_id|bcma_device_id|ccw_device_id|cdx_device_id|coreboot_device_id|css_device_id|dfl_device_id|dmi_(device|system)_id|eisa_device_id|fsl_mc_device_id|hda_device_id|hid_device_id|hv_vmbus_device_id|i2c_device_id|i3c_device_id|ieee1394_device_id|input_device_id|ipack_device_id|isapnp_device_id|ishtp_device_id|mcb_device_id|mdio_device_id|mei_cl_device_id|mhi_device_id|mips_cdmm_device_id|of_device_id|parisc_device_id|pci_device_id|pci_epf_device_id|pcmcia_device_id|platform_device_id|pnp_(card_)?device_id|rio_device_id|rpmsg_device_id|sdio_device_id|sdw_device_id|serio_device_id|slim_device_id|spi_device_id|spmi_device_id|ssam_device_id|ssb_device_id|tb_service_id|tee_client_device_id|typec_device_id|ulpi_device_id|usb_device_id|vchiq_device_id|virtio_device_id|wmi_device_id|x86_(cpu|device)_id|zorro_device_id|cpu_feature)\>' ... but none of them relies on 's #include. is a bad header mixing many different device id structures and thus is an unfortunate dependency because if e.g. struct wmi_device_id is modified all users of need to be recompiled despite none of them using struct wmi_device_id. So drop the unused header. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) --- Hello, the check that wasn't needed by all the users of was done on top of v7.2-rc2. Best regards Uwe include/linux/mdio.h | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mdio.h b/include/linux/mdio.h index f4f9d9609448..300805e66592 100644 --- a/include/linux/mdio.h +++ b/include/linux/mdio.h @@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ #include #include -#include struct gpio_desc; struct mii_bus; base-commit: 8cdeaa50eae8dad34885515f62559ee83e7e8dda -- 2.55.0.11.g153666a7d9bb