Hi Linus, On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 5:44 AM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 12:39 PM Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Not exactly what you ask for - but we have make V=2 > > Yeah, that's certainly more convenient than "make --debug". > > That said, I was more thinking of not any particular "oh, it's > recompiling everything" situation (by then it's too late, obviously), > but if somebody has been looking at tools for finding and maybe > breaking some of our deeper include chains. > > I know it has come up before (the x86 people did the > <linux/schedule.h> split some years ago) and then it was all manual. > But I was kind of hoping that maybe some of the kbuild people had > looked at this? Sorry, I do not know more information than Sam provided. I got rid of some unneeded header inclusions in the past, but my work was also manual. -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada