From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965730AbXEDIXz (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 04:23:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767733AbXEDIXz (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 04:23:55 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:59345 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965730AbXEDIXy (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2007 04:23:54 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 72.143.66.196 Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 04:23:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: "KERNEL/_KERNEL/INKERNEL" macro cruft Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 20.00, UPPERCASE_25_50 0.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org can any of this be removed? for a start, what's the point of "#define KERNEL"? $ grep -r "^#define KERNEL$" * drivers/net/skfp/srf.c:#define KERNEL drivers/net/skfp/pmf.c:#define KERNEL drivers/net/skfp/smt.c:#define KERNEL drivers/net/skfp/ecm.c:#define KERNEL drivers/net/skfp/pcmplc.c:#define KERNEL drivers/net/skfp/cfm.c:#define KERNEL drivers/net/skfp/rmt.c:#define KERNEL drivers/char/dtlk.c:#define KERNEL which seems unrelated to this: $ grep -r "#if.* KERNEL$" * include/linux/coda.h:#ifdef KERNEL and there's these lonely examples of "INKERNEL" and "_KERNEL": $ grep -rw _KERNEL * include/linux/coda.h:/* Catch new _KERNEL defn for NetBSD and DJGPP/__CYGWIN32__ */ include/linux/soundcard.h:#if (!defined(__KERNEL__) && !defined(KERNEL) && !defined(INKERNEL) && !defined(_KERNEL)) || defined(USE_SEQ_MACROS) rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================