Re: Bootconfig ..too many deep level of header file

[Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>]

Hi Bhaskar,

On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 08:38:56 +0530
Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hey, Masami
> 
>  I was wondering why so many level of "deep nesting" of a particualr header
>  file like this one :
> 
>  ✔ ~/git-linux/linux/tools/bootconfig/include/linux [patch L|✔]
> 08:34 $ cat bootconfig.h
> /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> #ifndef _BOOTCONFIG_LINUX_BOOTCONFIG_H
> #define _BOOTCONFIG_LINUX_BOOTCONFIG_H
> 
> #include "../../../../include/linux/bootconfig.h"
> 
> #endif
> 
> I am surely missing some basic stuff...but...anyway, I have taken a peek on other files in the same dir and none have the nesting like that(the include ../ ...line)
> 
> Any specific reason? OR did you thought of keeping all the header file in one paplace(wildly guessing) ...

If you carefully check the number of ../, you can find that it refers the
 <topdir>/include/linux/bootconfig.h.
Since the bootconfig library code needs bootconfig.h but I don't like to make
a copy of the bootconfig.h under the tools directory, I made a dummy header
file which links to the kernel's bootconfig.h.

Thank you,

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>