Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:44:18 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sparse chokes on arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c (was: 2.6.20-mm1)
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:46:56 -0500
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:

> > Me too.  It's due to the linux-kernel-markers patches.  Mathieu, can you
> > take a look please?
> 
> I will give a deeper look in sparse, but I should say up front that I
> add this to the root build tree Makefile :
> 
> LINUXINCLUDE    := -Iinclude \
>                    $(if $(KBUILD_SRC),-Iinclude2 -I$(srctree)/include) \
>                    -include include/linux/autoconf.h \
>                    -include linux/marker.h
> 
> I guess sparse is maybe not using this Makefile or variable ?

ow, that's going to hurt - this stuff is complex and fragile.

For what reason was that change made?

Pleeze, tricky things like this should be changelogged - we shouldn't need
to ask.  I missed it.


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