On Fri, 27 May 2016, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > while i'm here, some pedantry ... what is the point of adding a
> > header file somewhere under include/uapi/<somedir> without
> > *immediately* adding it to the Kbuild file so that it's exported?
>
> I don't know the answer to that. But having done this once, I can
> answer why *I* did it: Ignorance.
>
> I didn't realize that I had to update the Kbuild file, but wrongly
> assumed that creating a file somewhere in include/uapi was enough.
> Maybe that's the reason for most of these errors? Some automatic
> check, or maybe even automatic fix, would be nice. Should be pretty
> easy to do.
unless there really is some reason to not do those two things at
the same time, but for the life of me, i can't imagine what it is.
rday
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