Re: [PATCH] headerdep: a tool for detecting inclusion cycles in header file

["Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>]

On 4/26/08, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 03:45:54PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
>  > Hi Sam,
>  >
>  > Maybe something like this could be useful for cleaning up headers (and
>  > maintaining that cleanliness once it has been achieved). What do you think?
>  >
>  > (One thing which might or might not be good is that 'make headerdep' will
>  >  also compile using CC if they're not already compiled. If this should be
>  >  fixed, I think you'd know how to do it.)
>
>
> This way you only catch problems in the current kernel configuration.
>
>  The only problems are under include/, and you should be able to do this
>  by parsing all headers and without hooking into the build system.

This seems correct. Then a solution similar to 'make headers_check'
should be used.

Vegard

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