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

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

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?
>...

And another note (after looking at the Cc list):

Header cleanup is *not* something suitable as a first task for a janitor.

The interesting cases are non-trivial.

And you need cross compilers for all architectures since fiddling with 
#include's under include/ breaks code left and right that only compiled 
due to some implicit #include (and if it still works due to another 
implicit #include on x86 the latter might not be present on all 
architectures).

> Vegard
>...

cu
Adrian

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