Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:25:39 +0200 | From | "Vegard Nossum" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] headerdep: a tool for detecting inclusion cycles in header file |
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On 4/26/08, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 03:45:54PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote: > > Hi Sam, > > > > Maybe something like this could be useful for cleaning up headers (and > > maintaining that cleanliness once it has been achieved). What do you think? > > > > (One thing which might or might not be good is that 'make headerdep' will > > also compile using CC if they're not already compiled. If this should be > > fixed, I think you'd know how to do it.) > > > This way you only catch problems in the current kernel configuration. > > The only problems are under include/, and you should be able to do this > by parsing all headers and without hooking into the build system.
This seems correct. Then a solution similar to 'make headers_check' should be used.
Vegard
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