Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751980AbWJWQJ5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:09:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751374AbWJWQJ4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:09:56 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:45269 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751980AbWJWQJz (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:09:55 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:09:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Geert Uytterhoeven cc: Andi Kleen , Randy Dunlap , Stefan Richter , Al Viro , Alexey Dobriyan , Linux Kernel Development , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: dealing with excessive includes In-Reply-To: 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: 681 Lines: 24 On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > 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. It's _not_ simple. Not at all. We have tons of issues that depend on config variables and architecture details. It's hard. Linus - 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/