linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] headers

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Message-Id: <1244369716.2443.2.camel@ht.satnam>
Date:	Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:45:16 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
To:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Greg Ungerer <gerg@...pgear.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Michael Abbott <michael@...neidae.co.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] headers_check fixes

Hello Russell,

On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 22:47 +0100, Russell King wrote:
> Right, below is a patch to unifdef.c which allows it to work out if
> an #if expression always evaluates true or false for symbols which
> are being undefined/always defined.
> 
> The patch is slightly more complicated than I'd hoped because unifdef
> needs to see lines fully evaluated - doing otherwise causes it to
> mark the line as "dirty" and copy it over no matter what.
> 
> What follows this email is the diff of what effect it has on the
> headers copied over - as can be seen, all resulting changes are of
> net benefit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
> 

This patch not only solve ARM's hwcap.h but also fixes some other arch
header files.

Great work, thanks.
--
JSR


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