linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: more header fixes

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Message-ID: <20080722103632.GA27029@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:36:32 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: more header fixes


* Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> >> I'm not sure how we should proceed with this. On one hand, we could
> >> just fix the issues as they come up and be done with it. On the other
> >> hand, this was exactly the thing I wanted to avoid by automatic it. I
> >> guess it can never be fully automated... The question is if there is
> >> any danger of *silent* (read: runtime) breakage, which would be much
> >> worse than compiler errors.
> >
> > dont worry, lets fix the above hideous hack first, then i can merge the
> > guards fixes ontop of that fix. That's why we do testing, to catch the
> > cases where assumptions fail. Your script is just fine - it beats having
> > to edit 280+ files by hand ...
> 
> I've updated my script to also fix any rogue uses of header-guard 
> names in auxiliary files. I'm attaching the resulting patch.
> 
> It doesn't really _fix_ the hideous hack, it merely unbreaks it.
> 
> Patch #2 also fixes some left-over headers. They both apply on top of 
> tip/x86/header-guards.

looks good - do you have a branch i could pull into 
tip/x86/header-guards?

	Ingo
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