Re: [mingo@elte.hu: [git pull] headers_check fixes]

[H. Peter Anvin]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Do you think the "fix headers_check" patches spend lots of time analyzing 
> things? I bet no. They just try to make the warning go away, so you don't 
> actually end up with any more "coverage" anyway. Quite the reverse - 
> instead of having a simple rule ("CONFIG_xyz options simply do not exist 
> in user space"), you end up having ad-hoc hacks on a per-fix basis.

This is probably true.  I think we should add this as one more of the 
preprocessing rules which we really should just do, as well as automatic 
mangling of integer types.

	-hpa

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