Re: [PATCH v2] sched: fix build error in kernel/sched_rt.c when RT_GROUP_SCHED&& !SMP

[Gregory Haskins]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 09:01 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>     
>>> * Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> +#define dec_rt_group(rt_se, rt_rq) do { } while (0)
>>>>         
>>> Please dont _ever_ introduce new CPP macros into core kernel code, and if 
>>> you see existing once, please fix them to be proper C inline functions. 
>>> (there's a few other new macros in your patchset)
>>>       
>> Generally good advice, and certainly doable in this case. But in some 
>> very rare occasions I've had to use CPP in order to avoid silly header 
>> dependency hell -- I think we should add comments in such cases as to 
>> why we use CPP.
>>     
>
> yeah - that's why i qualified it with 'core kernel code', not 'headers'. 
>
> (But even in the dependency spaghetti case the right solution is to clean 
> up the header dependencies. It's just very hard in most cases due to most 
> folks running on x86 and there being 20+ other architectures they cannot 
> really test. So the dependency hell tends to grow not shrink. )
>
>   

Hey guys,
  Sorry, wasn't aware of that rule.  Ill spin a v3 and send it out later
today.

-Greg

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