linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/33] i386: CONFIG_PHYSICAL

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Date:	Thu, 3 Aug 2006 16:05:12 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	fastboot@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Horms <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Jan Kratochvil <lace@...kratochvil.net>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>, Linda Wang <lwang@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/33] i386: CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START cleanup

> 
> Stupid questions:
> - Why do we still have a linux/config.h if it is totally redundant.
> - Why don't we have at least a #warning in linux/config.h that would
>   tell us not to include it.
> - Why do we still have about 200 includes of linux/config.h in the
>   kernel tree?
> 
> I would much rather have a compile error, or at least a compile
> warning rather than needed a code review to notice this error.
In progress. As part of the ongoing header cleanup all include
<config.h> are being removed and a warning is included in config.h.

When the change was done I did not want to spew out thousands of warning
for a simple thing like this.

	Sam
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