From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]:50726 "EHLO astoria.ccjclearline.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758048AbYEVH23 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 03:28:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 03:28:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] run all userspace headers through unifdef In-Reply-To: <1211440369.21380.395.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Message-ID: 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> <20080522000838.da3931e0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1211440369.21380.395.camel@pmac.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: David Woodhouse Cc: Andrew Morton , Adrian Bunk , sam@ravnborg.org, kbuild devel list 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 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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ========================================================================