Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751988AbWJWQNx (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:13:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751987AbWJWQNx (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:13:53 -0400 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:55202 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751984AbWJWQNw (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:13:52 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:13:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Linus Torvalds 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: 1174 Lines: 32 On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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. Indeed, so the config variables and architecture details should be handled in the include files, not in the (multiple) users of those include files. 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/