Every time we make a tiny change on a header file, we often find circular header dependency problems. To avoid this nightmare, we need to stop including qemu-common.h on other headers, and we should gradually move the declarations from the catchall qemu-common.h header to their specific headers.
This simply adds a comment documenting the rules about qemu-common.h, hoping that people will see it before including qemu-common.h from other header files, and before adding more declarations to qemu-common.h. Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> --- qemu-common.h | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/qemu-common.h b/qemu-common.h index b54612b..630bfa0 100644 --- a/qemu-common.h +++ b/qemu-common.h @@ -1,5 +1,14 @@ -/* Common header file that is included by all of qemu. */ +/* Common header file that is included by all of qemu. + * + * This file is supposed to be included only by .c files. No header file should + * depend on qemu-common.h, as this would easily lead to circular header + * dependencies. + * + * If a header files uses a definition from qemu-common.h, that definition + * must be moved to a separate header file, and the header that uses it + * must include that header. + */ #ifndef QEMU_COMMON_H #define QEMU_COMMON_H -- 1.7.11.7
