linux-kernel - Re: dealing with excessive includes

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Message-ID: <453C6260.7060609@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:34:08 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
CC:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	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

Nick Piggin wrote:
...
> If you have an
> 
> #ifndef _LINUX_INTERRUPT_H
> #error ...
> 
> That almost explicitly tells you which is the correct file to include to
> get all definitions from this file. Wouldn't that help?

This can even be evaluated by a script that searches for required header
files, except if more than one of such clauses appear in a file.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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