On Wed, 21 May 2008 04:36:30 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 20 May 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Sat, 17 May 2008 20:18:07 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > Move exported header files under include/linux that don't check the > > > __KERNEL__ preprocessor from unifdef-y to header-y. > > > > > > > Changelog fails to tell us why this change is being made. > > > > Perhaps it's because these headers just don't need unifdef processing? > > > > If so, that seems fragile. If we later add a __KERNEL__ section to > > a header we need to remember to move the file to unifdef-y, and > > we'll forget. It'd be better to process all files with unifdef. > > > > Or something. Or not. > > i don't see a problem with simply running all exported files through > unifdef -- i've never understood the two categories since the unifdef > process is not exactly CPU-intensive and it can't possibly hurt for > some of those operations to be redundant. > > but as long as the two categories exist, might as well keep them > clean. > Well... not to let this go for now - nuking the header-y stuff is an attractive cleanup. David, are we missing something here? -- 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
