Re: RFC: cleaning up the in-kernel headers

Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-11T17:33:05Z

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?