From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: another attempt to kill off linux/config.h
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 13:24:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061004112450.GA6858@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061004074434.GA13672@redhat.com>
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:44:34AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> Every time I (or someone else) gets a patch included
> removing explicit includes of linux/config.h, another few creep
> into the tree a day or so later.
>
> Lets kill them all for good.
>
> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/configh.git
>
> is a git tree killing off all the current users in tree,
> and adds a #warn to include/linux/config.h that it's going away.
> (This should still leave as-yet-unmerged trees compiling,
> and hopefully get them fixed before they get merged)
> We can then remove the file for real just before 2.6.19
Removing it for real will be a pain for external modules.
They could of course detect that it is missing and then
drop it.
I would suggest to keep the #warning in 2.6.19 and only
remove it for real for 2.6.20.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-04 11:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-04 7:44 another attempt to kill off linux/config.h Dave Jones
2006-10-04 11:24 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2006-10-04 11:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-04 18:01 ` Dave Jones
2006-10-04 18:26 ` Sam Ravnborg
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