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Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:54:03 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, andrea@...e.de, clameter@....com
Subject: Re: + oom-move-prototypes-to-appropriate-header-file.patch added to -mm tree

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 12:38:03PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> 
> > > Move the OOM killer's extern function prototypes to include/linux/oom.h and
> > > include it where necessary.
> > > 
> > > Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...e.de>
> > > Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
> > 
> > NAK. Target in corresponding Kbuild is wrong. sched.h is overkill.
> > Could we please also drop extern's while in protos?
> > 
> 
> I'll prevent including sched.h in a follow-up patchset that I'll be 
> posting soon (and you'll be Cc'd).  Which Kbuild target are you referring 
> to?

It's header-y vs unifdef-y in include/linux/Kbuild. The former is for
plain headers exported to userspace as-is. The latter need preprocessing
to remove __KERNEL__, CONFIG_*, etc.

Since you're going to clutter oom.h with some purely internal protos,
preprocessing should be done as well ;-)
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