[patch 1/8] extend make headers_check to detect more problems

[Arnd Bergmann]

In addition to the problem of including non-existant header
files, a number of other things can go wrong with header
files exported to user space. This adds checks for some
common problems:

- The header fails to include the files it needs, which
  results in build errors when a program tries to include
  it. Check this by doing a dummy compile.

- There is a declarations of a static variable or non-inline
  function in the header, which results in object code
  in every file including it. Check for symbols in the object
  with 'nm'.

- Part of the header is subject to conditional compilation
  based on CONFIG_*. Add a regex search for this.

I found many problems with this, which I then fixed for
powerpc, s390 and i386, in subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Index: linux-cg/scripts/hdrcheck.sh
===================================================================
--- linux-cg.orig/scripts/hdrcheck.sh	2006-09-18 02:04:44.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-cg/scripts/hdrcheck.sh	2006-09-18 02:04:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,8 +1,28 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
+# check if all included files exist
 for FILE in `grep '^[ \t]*#[ \t]*include[ \t]*<' $2 | cut -f2 -d\< | cut -f1 -d\> | egrep ^linux\|^asm` ; do
     if [ ! -r $1/$FILE ]; then
 	echo $2 requires $FILE, which does not exist in exported headers
 	exit 1
     fi
 done
+
+# try to compile in order to see CC warnings, show only the first few
+CHECK_CFLAGS=`grep @headercheck: $2 | sed -e 's/^.*@headercheck:\([^@]*\)@.*$/\1/'`
+CFLAGS="-Wall -std=gnu99 -xc -O2 -I$1 ${CHECK_CFLAGS}"
+tmpfile=`mktemp`
+${CC:-gcc} ${CFLAGS} -c $2 -o $tmpfile 2>&1 | sed -e "s:$1:include:g" >&2
+
+# check if object file is empty
+if [ "`nm $tmpfile`" ] ; then
+    echo include${2#$1}: warning: non-empty output >&2
+fi
+rm $tmpfile
+
+# check if we use a CONFIG_ symbol, which is not allowed in installed headers
+grep '^[ \t]*#[ \t]*if.*\<CONFIG_[[:alnum:]_]*\>' -n $2 |
+while read i ; do
+    echo include${2#$1}:${i%%:*}: warning: invalid use of `echo $i |
+	sed -e 's/.*\(\<CONFIG_[[:alnum:]_]*\>\).*/\1/g'` >&2
+done

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