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authorEduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>2012-10-23 19:44:02 -0200
committerAndreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>2012-11-15 01:38:13 +0100
commit04509ad939a7878b487b29e3500b79b5e2c1de35 (patch)
tree5fb00ba4847b3e09e31b56bbe4d51174f175d66c
parentce34cf72fe508b27a78f83c184142e8d1e6a048a (diff)
qemu-common.h: Comment about usage rules
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 from other headers, and we should gradually move the declarations from the catch-all 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 <ehabkost@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--qemu-common.h11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-common.h b/qemu-common.h
index ac9985cc6d..093d1198ec 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 file 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