linux-kernel - Re: asm-x86/processor-flags.h, CONFIG

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:31:53 +0200
From:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
To:	"Olaf Hering" <olaf@...fle.de>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: asm-x86/processor-flags.h, CONFIG_* leaks

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, Vegard Nossum wrote:
>
>> why doesn't make headers_check catch it?
>
> An automated grep -r CONFIG_ in the export dir is missing.

Do you mean like this? (My INSTALL_HDR_PATH refers to the the usr/ of
the top-level kernel directory)

    rm -rf usr/include/*
    make headers_install
    grep -r CONFIG_ usr/include/

...because this is turning up a rather lot of (80) occurences. Should
all this ideally be fixed in some way?


Vegard

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