From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org
Subject: Re: kbuild-permanently-fix-kernel-configuration-include-mess.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:58:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1126695497.19133.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050914102016.B30672@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Mer, 2005-09-14 at 10:20 +0100, Russell King wrote:
> That is a small price to pay, rather than having to continually maintain
> "does this file need config.h included" - which I think can conclusively
> be shown to be a total lost cause. There are about 3450 configuration
> include errors in the kernel as of -git last night.
I think your proposal makes sense. The alternative is to do a config
check each build for a while after the config pass and refuse to build
if the header check fails 8). That I suspect would rapidly see config.h
directly or indirectly in every file.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-14 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200509140841.j8E8fG1w022954@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
2005-09-14 9:05 ` kbuild-permanently-fix-kernel-configuration-include-mess.patch added to -mm tree Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-09-14 9:20 ` Russell King
2005-09-14 10:58 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-09-14 17:26 ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-09-14 16:49 ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-09-14 16:53 ` Russell King
2005-09-14 16:58 ` Sam Ravnborg
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