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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
	Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] duplicate #include check for build system
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:57:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060222055719.GA9078@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060222001153.GF20204@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 01:11:53AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > 
> > Keeping the 'what it needs' part small is a challenge resulting in
> > smaller .h files. But also a good way to keep related things together.
> 
> glad that I stimulated a philosophical discussion
> about the kernel header files and what they should
> include or not ... 
> 
> but the idea was more to give the developers an
> instrument to verify that they are not including
> stuff several times, and that's actually in .h
> and .c files, because it seems that often the same
> header file is included twice in the _same_ file
> 
> anyway, was this a positive or negative reply?

If you can restrict the tool to locate the cases where
a header file is included twice in the same file - then
this is a positive reply.
If you limit the check to the top-level file this is fine,
but I would not be suprised is one or a few .h files
has duplicated includes too.

	Sam

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-22  5:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-21  1:48 Herbert Poetzl
2006-02-21  6:10 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-21  7:29 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-02-21 17:52   ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-22  0:11     ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-02-22  0:18       ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-02-22  0:26         ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-02-22  0:28           ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-02-22  5:57       ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2006-02-24  7:23     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-25  2:59       ` Randy.Dunlap

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