linux-kernel - Re: [PULL -tip] fixed few make headers

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Message-ID: <3f9a31f40901140759s1542e6cclae1808b796c2b1a9@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:29:35 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@...il.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PULL -tip] fixed few make headers_check warnings

Hello Sam,

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
>> >

>
> I appreciate your work but I will like to question the approach.

My approach was:
"PATCH should solve a problem per file", like:
 capability.h: extern's make no sense in userspace
 coda_psdev.h: extern's make no sense in userspace
 in6.h: extern's make no sense in userspace
 nubus.h: extern's make no sense in userspace
 socket.h: extern's make no sense in userspace

But this warnings was in many files:
 include of <linux/types.h> is preferred over <asm/types.h> : 15 files
 found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h> : 52 files

So in place of making 15 + 52 = 67 patches, I made 2 patches for each warning.

> We should rather take the warnings as an indication that this
> file needs to be looked over and fix not only the warnings
> reported but rater to fix all the questionable issues on a file-by-file basis.

Should I make 67 patches ?

--
JSR
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