Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 01:39:44 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: joern@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Permanently fix kernel configuration include mess (was:
 Missing #include <config.h>)
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Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
>  LINUXINCLUDE    := -Iinclude \
>  -                   $(if $(KBUILD_SRC),-Iinclude2 -I$(srctree)/include)
>  +                   $(if $(KBUILD_SRC),-Iinclude2 -I$(srctree)/include) \
>  +		   -imacros include/linux/autoconf.h

This means that over time the kernel will fail to compile correctly without
`-imacros include/linux/autoconf.h'.

That's OK for the kernel, but not for out-of-tree stuff.  Those drivers
will need to add the new gcc commandline option too.

Not that I'm saying it's a terrible thing.  It's just a thing.
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