linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] headers

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Date:	Fri, 5 Jun 2009 21:10:01 +0100
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] headers_check fix: arm, hwcap.h

On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 10:16:49PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:53:07PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 05:57:56PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > > fix the following 'make headers_check' warning:
> > 
> > I think headers_check needs fixing - there's nothing wrong with the
> > code as it presently stands except the tools obviously can't properly
> > parse C preprocessor statements.
> 
> You are correct that headers_ceck is limited here and this patch
> take some valid code and refactor it to make it headers_check compatible.

If it is just a matter of unifdef not doing the right thing, then that's
a bug in unifdef - looking at the code, it _should_ handle the case as
it's currently in the tree.

I'll spend a bit looking at this issue before applying this patch - if
the fix turns out to be trivial then we all win by not requiring people
to write stuff in unexpected (to the tools, but standard C) ways.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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