linux-kernel - Re: dealing with excessive includes

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0610231812290.1841@pademelon.sonytel.be>
Date:	Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:13:40 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	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, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> It's _not_ simple. Not at all.
> 
> We have tons of issues that depend on config variables and architecture 
> details. 

Indeed, so the config variables and architecture details should be handled in
the include files, not in the (multiple) users of those include files.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
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							    -- Linus Torvalds
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