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

Adrian Bunk
2008-05-22T07:39:44Z

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:08:38AM -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.

The bulk is the change to include/linux/Kbuild that is more than 50% of
my patch.

And that's also where the conflicts will be.

If you care about conflicts let's sneak it into Linus' tree right now -
after all my patch touches nothing that could possibly break stuff other
then the userspace headers.

cu
Adrian

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