linux-kernel - Re: dealing with excessive includes

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Date:	Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:29:12 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dealing with excessive includes

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Sunday 22 October 2006 19:58, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > Yes, we have lots of header include indirection going on.
> > > I don't know of a good tool to detect/fix it.
> > 
> > BTW, what about making sure all header files are self-contained (i.e. all
> > header files include all stuff they need)? This would make it easier for the
> > users to know which files to include.
> 
> Would be a worthy goal imho. Can it be done with scripts? 

Making them self-contained or checking whether they are? :-)

The latter is simple, just compile each of them into dummy object files, which
should give no compile errors.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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