linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Speed up "make headers

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Date:	Sun, 8 Jun 2008 23:13:31 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Speed up "make headers_*"

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 09:58:54PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> It doesn't look like headers_check_all will work after your patches --
> but to be fair I don't think it worked _before_ them either. When you
> run headers_install_all, there's no asm/ directory -- and thus the check
> will fail for any headers in linux/ which try to include <asm/*.h>. 
> 
> Did this _ever_ work?
It relied on what was installed in asm previously resulting in
arbitary failures - which confused me a little.

What I did in headers_check.pl was to introduce a second try.
If we see a #include <asm/file.h> then we try both of:
asm/file.h (first)
asm-$arch/file.h (if the asm/file.h did not succeed)

So with my version it actually works as expected and we
hit a bug in cris.
I've also implmented the feature that we stop on error so
when cris has a bug we do not try the rest.

It is both good and bad.

	Sam
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