Re: [PATCH] headerdep: a tool for detecting inclusion cycles inheader file

[Adrian Bunk]

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.

> Vegard
>...

cu
Adrian

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