On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:22:45 +0100 David Howells wrote:
>
> Here's my first installment of patches to clean up the kernel header files and
or second
> sort out the recursion problems. The planned steps are:
Could you give a small bit of background on the "recursion problems," please?
[snip]
> (7) Provide a script to go through and rejig the #includes of each source file
> to have just the ones that are actually required.
How is "actually required" defined?
We traditionally want to see #include <hdrfile> for any interfaces that are used,
even if other header files suck in some other needed header files.
> (8) Provide a make target that tests all the KAPI and UAPI headers by simply
> passing them one at a time to the compiler and attempting to compile them.
Interesting.
[snip]
> (3) To eliminate the need for __KERNEL__. After the split, __KERNEL__ can
> certainly by unifdef'd from the residual kernel headers - but this isn't
be ?
> quite true of the UAPI headers.
[snip]
> The uapi/ directories are also added with -I to the CPP flags after the
> include/ directories so that if the KAPI file does not exist, the UAPI file
> will be used directly. This is not as elegant as using #include_next might be,
> but it does work.
Is this v2 patchset meant to avoid the use of #include_next?
I don't see that used, but patch 22 description refers to #include_next.
I'm still reviewing...
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