On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 06:57:09PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote: > On 4/26/08, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > Hehe, yes, I could not agree more! > > I have been trying to resolve some of these errors myself, but it's > incredibly hard to get right. > > The reason I CCed kernel-janitors is that this IS a janitorial > project. But I am not implying that janitor means "newbie" or trivial. > At least the way I see it, janitor work is cleaning up, but not > necessarily easy work. But I agree, definitely not a first task job. kernel-janitors is basically for "I'm new to kernel development and want an easy task". > > 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). > > Yep. I have been compiling cross-compilers myself. As a btw, I had > already started some project to distribute binary cross-compilers > http://folk.uio.no/vegardno/crosstool/ for the purpose of making > cross-compiling easier to get started with. (It would be cool to have > a complete suite of working cross-compilers in a single download.) "The source code for the binary files below can be downloaded from the aforementioned project websites." -> GPL violation > Vegard cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
