From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:57107 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752534AbYEVHJ2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 03:09:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 00:08:38 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] run all userspace headers through unifdef Message-Id: <20080522000838.da3931e0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1211439612.21380.385.camel@pmac.infradead.org> References: <20080520000835.80f7b14a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080521014337.1543ff20.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1211360434.21380.319.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080521100245.GC18352@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <1211366874.21380.341.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080521174143.GE15355@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080521232243.bca09103.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1211439612.21380.385.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: David Woodhouse Cc: Adrian Bunk , sam@ravnborg.org, "Robert P. J. Day" , kbuild devel list On Thu, 22 May 2008 08:00:12 +0100 David Woodhouse 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.