Re: 2.6.0-test5: configcheck results

From: Andries Brouwer
Date: Tue Sep 09 2003 - 19:23:07 EST


On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:40:01PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:04:12AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just ran make configcheck on 2.6.0-test5 and the results are:
> >
> > 832 files need linux/config.h but don't actually include it.
> > 689 files which include linux/config.h but don't require the header.
>
> Randy, you have looked into related perl scripts. Is the result of
> checkconfig.pl reliable?

No, make configcheck is not reliable.
For example, <linux/init.h> includes <linux/config.h>.
But configcheck doesn't notice.

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