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

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Date:	Fri, 5 Jun 2009 16:17:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
To:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	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 Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Russell King wrote:

> 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.

  the current version of unifdef, as it stands, has some weaknesses.
there's a newer version -- sunifdef -- that appears to be more robust
and ruthless when it comes to cleaning.  just an observation.

http://www.sunifdef.strudl.org/

rday
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