source dependencies cleanup? [was: Re: Linux-2.0.27 and 2.1.14]

Ingo Molnar (mingo@pc5829.hil.siemens.at)
Tue, 3 Dec 1996 19:25:27 +0100 (MET)


On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, John Alvord wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > Just go back to the old depend maker. The 2.1.14 one is badly broken in
> > > its assumption that all includes exist for all architectures
> >
> > hmm, the asm/* files are almost the same for all platforms. Maybe it would
> > make sense to split up dependencies in the arch directory and in the main
> > kernel tree?

i think we should introduce arch/include. 'include/asm/*' >funcionality<
is mostly platform neutral already?

> In cases where there is a missing dependency, it might make sense to have
> a dummy include file... a placeholder. The c source would be simplified by
> having fewer conditionals.

i think it would be a bit unclear why we have 'vm86.h' in asm-sparc?

-- mingo