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From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test5: configcheck results
Date: 9 Sep 2003 22:01:43 GMT
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In article <20030909100412.A25143@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>,
Russell King  <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

| I just ran make configcheck on 2.6.0-test5 and the results are:
| 
|     832 files need linux/config.h but don't actually include it.
|     689 files which include linux/config.h but don't require the header.

I'm suspicious of the first one, unless you mean "include it with
multi-level includes of other stuff." The second one is probably close
to the truth.

Thanks for doing this work, I'm not sure any tool is trustworthy, but it
should be relatively easy to test the "do not need" files with a script.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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