Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751816AbWJWI3Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 04:29:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751812AbWJWI3Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 04:29:24 -0400 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:5275 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751342AbWJWI3X (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 04:29:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:29:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Andi Kleen cc: Randy Dunlap , Stefan Richter , Al Viro , Linus Torvalds , Alexey Dobriyan , Linux Kernel Development , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: dealing with excessive includes In-Reply-To: <200610230059.23806.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20061017005025.GF29920@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20061020091302.a2a85fb1.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <200610230059.23806.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1252 Lines: 32 On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sunday 22 October 2006 19:58, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > Yes, we have lots of header include indirection going on. > > > I don't know of a good tool to detect/fix it. > > > > BTW, what about making sure all header files are self-contained (i.e. all > > header files include all stuff they need)? This would make it easier for the > > users to know which files to include. > > Would be a worthy goal imho. Can it be done with scripts? Making them self-contained or checking whether they are? :-) The latter is simple, just compile each of them into dummy object files, which should give no compile errors. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - 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/