Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932704AbVINKdJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2005 06:33:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932705AbVINKdJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2005 06:33:09 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:35496 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932704AbVINKdI (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2005 06:33:08 -0400 Subject: Re: kbuild-permanently-fix-kernel-configuration-include-mess.patch added to -mm tree From: Alan Cox To: Russell King Cc: Coywolf Qi Hunt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org In-Reply-To: <20050914102016.B30672@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <200509140841.j8E8fG1w022954@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <2cd57c900509140205572f19b7@mail.gmail.com> <20050914102016.B30672@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:58:17 +0100 Message-Id: <1126695497.19133.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 828 Lines: 16 On Mer, 2005-09-14 at 10:20 +0100, Russell King wrote: > That is a small price to pay, rather than having to continually maintain > "does this file need config.h included" - which I think can conclusively > be shown to be a total lost cause. There are about 3450 configuration > include errors in the kernel as of -git last night. I think your proposal makes sense. The alternative is to do a config check each build for a while after the config pass and refuse to build if the header check fails 8). That I suspect would rapidly see config.h directly or indirectly in every file. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/