Re: dealing with excessive includes

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > Would be a worthy goal imho. Can it be done with scripts? 
> > 
> > Making them self-contained or checking whether they are? :-)
> > 
> > The latter is simple, just compile each of them into dummy object files, which
> > should give no compile errors.
> 
> It's _not_ simple. Not at all.
> 
> We have tons of issues that depend on config variables and architecture 
> details. 

Indeed, so the config variables and architecture details should be handled in
the include files, not in the (multiple) users of those include files.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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