From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@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 22:04:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152651863.25567.71.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060711173301.GA27818@infradead.org>
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 18:33 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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?
We already have it for _exported_ headers -- run 'make headers_check'.
It doesn't do much yet though.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-11 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-11 16:06 Adrian Bunk
2006-07-11 16:28 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-11 17:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
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 [this message]
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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