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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: RFC: cleaning up the in-kernel headers
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:33:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060711173301.GA27818@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1152635323.3373.211.camel@pmac.infradead.org>

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 05:28:43PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> It would be nice in the general case if we could actually _compile_ each
> header file, standalone. There may be some cases where that doesn't
> work, but it's a useful goal in most cases, for bother exported headers
> _and_ the in-kernel version. For the former case it would be nice to add
> it to 'make headers_check' once it's realistic to do so.

That would be extremly valueable.  Maybe one of the kbuild gurus could
cook up a make checkheaders rule that does this?


  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-11 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-11 16:06 RFC: cleaning up the in-kernel headers Adrian Bunk
2006-07-11 16:28 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-11 17:33   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-07-11 19:34     ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-07-11 19:41       ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-07-11 20:41         ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-07-11 21:37           ` Jörn Engel
2006-07-11 22:01             ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-11 22:20               ` Jörn Engel
2006-07-11 22:39               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-11 22:40             ` Adrian Bunk
2006-07-11 21:04     ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-11 22:24   ` Adrian Bunk
2006-07-11 17:07 ` Dave Jones
2006-07-11 17:15   ` Joshua Hudson
2006-07-11 18:19     ` Dave Jones
2006-07-11 22:27   ` Adrian Bunk
2006-07-11 19:05 ` Russell King
2006-07-11 22:19   ` Adrian Bunk
2006-07-11 20:26 ` [PATCH] Fix broken kernel headers preventing ARM build Russell King
2006-07-13 19:05 ` RFC: cleaning up the in-kernel headers Christoph Lameter
2006-07-15  4:18   ` Steven Rostedt
2006-07-15  4:59     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-17  0:53       ` Steven Rostedt
2006-07-20 10:56         ` Adrian Bunk
2006-07-14  0:11 ` David Woodhouse

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