linux-kernel - Re: List of possible duplicated include files in include/

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Date:	Sun, 4 Nov 2007 14:01:59 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
To:	Marco Costalba <mcostalba@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: List of possible duplicated include files in include/

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Marco Costalba wrote:

> On 11/4/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...shcourse.ca> wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Marco Costalba wrote:
> >
> > > Here the number of false positives is overhelming, but perhaps
> > > there are also _real_ duplicated include somewhere in the bunch:
> > >
> > > include/acpi/acpi_bus.h:
> > > #include <linux/device.h>
> >
> > ... snip header file output ...
> >
> > i deliberately left out header files from my script output.  i can
> > tweak the script and add this to the web page as well.
> >
>
> Here the real job is to fliter out false positives more then print
> out the list I would say ;-)

  i don't think there are a lot of false positives there and, in any
event, it's a case of diminishing returns -- if you can get most of
what you want with two minutes of quick-and-dirty scripting, there's
not much point in spending another 10 or 15 minutes trying to tidy
things up only a little.

  just my $0.02 canadian, which is finally worth more than $0.02
american.  :-)

rday
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