Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:37:09 -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: [PATCH] sparse chokes on arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:23:47 -0500
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:

> sparse chokes on arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c
> 
> Here is a marker fix that puts the correct -i include/linux/marker.h in
> the top level Makefile so sparse works correctly. The tricky part is to
> keep the kernel compiling correctly with a kernel build directory
> different from the kernel source tree too.
> 
> The fix applies on top the the Linux Kernel Markers for 2.6.20.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> 
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -309,7 +309,8 @@ AFLAGS_KERNEL	=
>  LINUXINCLUDE    := -Iinclude \
>                     $(if $(KBUILD_SRC),-Iinclude2 -I$(srctree)/include) \
>  		   -include include/linux/autoconf.h \
> -		   -include linux/marker.h
> +		   -include \
> +		   	$(if $(KBUILD_SRC),$(srctree)/)include/linux/marker.h
>  
>  CPPFLAGS        := -D__KERNEL__ $(LINUXINCLUDE)

But what is so magical about marker.h to justify special-case treatment at the
kbuid level?
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