Re: [2.6 patch] run all userspace headers through unifdef

Robert P. J. Day
2008-05-22T07:28:29Z

On Thu, 22 May 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 00:08 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 May 2008 08:00:12 +0100 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 23:22 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This is going to be a bit of a pain for everyone - people are forever
> > > > patching those Kbuild files.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way in which we can do this in stages? Treat header-y in
> > > > the same manner as unifdef-y, then get all the unifdef-y's switched over
> > > > to header-y and once that is done, remove the "treat header-y in the same
> > > > manner as unifdef-y" support?
> > >
> > > We could. But does that actually reduce the pain, or just spread it
> > > about a bit?
> >
> > It means Stephen and I only need to carry the bulk of the patch
> > for a few days rather than a month or more.
>
> OK, maybe that makes sense then. Linus can do the conversion with a
> simple sed invocation whenever we're ready.

awesome. another one of my cleanup scripts i can throw away. then
i'll be down to ... uh ... lots. :-)

rday
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