Rules for headers were proposed a long time ago, and generally liked:
Message-ID: <87h9g8j57d....@blackfin.pond.sub.org>
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-03/msg03345.html
Wortk them into docs/devel/style.rst.
Suggested-by: Bernhard Beschow <shen...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
---
docs/devel/style.rst | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/devel/style.rst b/docs/devel/style.rst
index 7ddd42b6c2..68aa776930 100644
--- a/docs/devel/style.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/style.rst
@@ -293,6 +293,13 @@ that QEMU depends on.
Do not include "qemu/osdep.h" from header files since the .c file will have
already included it.
+Headers should normally include everything they need beyond osdep.h.
+If exceptions are needed for some reason, they must be documented in
+the header. If all that's needed from a header is typedefs, consider
+putting those into qemu/typedefs.h instead of including the header.
+
+Cyclic inclusion is forbidden.
+
C types
=======
--
2.38.1
