On 07/08/2011 07:22 AM, David Howells wrote: > > Here's my first installment of patches to clean up the kernel header files and > sort out the recursion problems. The planned steps are: > > (1) Split the Userspace API (UAPI) out of the kernel headers into its own > header directories. > > (2) Move stuff out of the Kernel API (KAPI) headers that can be contained in > individual directories as it is referenced by a single file or directory > of files. > > (3) Make coherent what can be found in commmon arch headers and disintegrate > asm/system.h. > > (4) Split some headers into definitions containers and inline function > containers to clean up recursion problems. The main culprit is very > likely to be linux/sched.h, I think. > > (5) I'd like to split some headers (e.g. linux/security.h) to reduce the > conditional recompilation burden. linux/security.h could have, for > instance, struct security_operations split out into a header file private > to the stuff in the security/ directory as the wrappers of its function > pointers are now out of lined in security/security.c. > > (6) Replace the traditional anti-reinclusion guards on header files with > three-state anti-recursion guards that abort compilation if recursive > inclusion is encountered. > > (7) Provide a script to go through and rejig the #includes of each source file > to have just the ones that are actually required. > > (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. By the way, I haven't commented on this in detail, but I like the concept. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
