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Date:	Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:12:15 -0400
From:	"Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@...il.com>
To:	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	"Oleg Verych" <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	kbuild-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH 25/33] kbuild: use POSIX BRE in headers install target

On 7/21/07, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 06:03:00PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 7/21/07, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
> > >I would much more prefer this functionality to be integrated into unifdef.
> > >There is no good reason to have two different preprocesisng methonds, one
> > >being the sed based one and the other the unidef one.
> > >
> > >A sinlge dedicated program that contian the sum of the functionality would
> > >be faster too.
> >
> > which functionality ?  normalizing of whitespace or all these
> > linux-specific hacks ?  unifdef serves one specific function which is
> > stated in its manpage: remove preprocessor conditionals from code.
>
> At present the kernel has a private copy of unidef. So adjusting the
> private copy for the needs of the kernels seems like a god plan.

didnt realize the kernel had integrated it since it didnt at first ...
so yeah, extending it however we see fit should be fine
-mike
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