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    [PATCH] kill gratitious includes of major.h under net/* · b453257f
    Al Viro authored
    
    
    A lot of places in there are including major.h for no reason whatsoever.
    Removed.  And yes, it still builds. 
    
    The history of that stuff is often amusing.  E.g.  for net/core/sock.c
    the story looks so, as far as I've been able to reconstruct it: we used
    to need major.h in net/socket.c circa 1.1.early.  In 1.1.13 that need
    had disappeared, along with register_chrdev(SOCKET_MAJOR, "socket",
    &net_fops) in sock_init().  Include had not.  When 1.2 -> 1.3 reorg of
    net/* had moved a lot of stuff from net/socket.c to net/core/sock.c,
    this crap had followed... 
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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