From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 0/8] Re: All arch maintainers: 'make headers_check' fails on most architectures.
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:27:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060918012740.407846000@klappe.arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1158079495.9189.125.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 18:44, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Basically all but PowerPC and i386 have problems; and the latter works
> only if you apply the patches I sent to Linus a few days ago.
>
> This is just a basic check that the headers which _are_ exported don't
> try to include other headers which aren't. This can happen either
> because the former should not, or the latter _should_ be exported.
> Mostly, however, the solution is just to make sure the latter is
> included only within #ifdef __KERNEL__, because it's only needed within
> that ifdef anyway.
I have extended that script somewhat to check for more problems,
and fixed a number of problems in the process.
The bad news is that with this extended script, there will be even
more work for each architecture maintainer to make it check without
warnings.
Arnd <><
next parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-18 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1158079495.9189.125.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>
2006-09-18 1:27 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2006-09-18 1:27 ` [patch 1/8] extend make headers_check to detect more problems Arnd Bergmann
2006-09-18 6:21 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-09-18 6:45 ` David Woodhouse
2006-09-21 15:13 ` David Woodhouse
2006-09-18 8:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-09-18 8:10 ` David Woodhouse
2006-09-23 11:04 ` David Woodhouse
2006-09-23 13:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-09-18 1:27 ` [patch 2/8] fix byteorder headers for make headers_check Arnd Bergmann
2006-09-18 1:27 ` [patch 3/8] hide kernel-only parts of some installed headers Arnd Bergmann
2006-09-18 1:27 ` [patch 4/8] fix exported flock64 constants Arnd Bergmann
2006-09-18 1:27 ` [patch 5/8] add missing #includes in user space parts of headers Arnd Bergmann
2006-09-18 1:27 ` [patch 6/8] annotate header files for make headers_check Arnd Bergmann
2006-09-18 1:27 ` [patch 8/8] annotate netfilter header " Arnd Bergmann
2006-09-18 1:37 ` [patch 7/8] annotate if_* " Arnd Bergmann
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