Re: [PATCH] Permanently fix kernel configuration include mess

From: Brian Gerst
Date: Tue Sep 13 2005 - 14:10:02 EST


Russell King wrote:
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:59:54PM +0100, Joern Engel wrote:

On Tue, 13 September 2005 15:50:12 +0100, Russell King wrote:

Subject: [KBUILD] Permanently fix kernel configuration include mess.

Include autoconf.h into every kernel compilation via the gcc
command line using -imacros. This ensures that we have the
kernel configuration included from the start, rather than
relying on each file having #include <linux/config.h> as
appropriate. History has shown that this is something which
is difficult to get right.

Since we now include the kernel configuration automatically,
make configcheck becomes meaningless, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

If it helps:
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Might help more if I copied (or sent this to) akpm. 8)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -346,7 +346,8 @@ AFLAGS_KERNEL =
# Use LINUXINCLUDE when you must reference the include/ directory.
# Needed to be compatible with the O= option
LINUXINCLUDE := -Iinclude \
- $(if $(KBUILD_SRC),-Iinclude2 -I$(srctree)/include)
+ $(if $(KBUILD_SRC),-Iinclude2 -I$(srctree)/include) \
+ -imacros include/linux/autoconf.h
CPPFLAGS := -D__KERNEL__ $(LINUXINCLUDE)
@@ -1247,11 +1248,6 @@ tags: FORCE
# Scripts to check various things for consistency
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-configcheck:
- find * $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \
- -name '*.[hcS]' -type f -print | sort \
- | xargs $(PERL) -w scripts/checkconfig.pl
-
includecheck:
find * $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \
-name '*.[hcS]' -type f -print | sort \



The patch should also remove the checkconfig.pl script.
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