Re: dead(?) header files in the source tree

[Armin Schindler]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   following up on an earlier post by stefan richter, i wrote a
> brute-force little script that scanned the source tree, looking for
> header files that weren't included from *anywhere* in the tree.  what
> turned up was the following:
> 
> ./arch/m68k/atari/atasound.h
> ./arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/bast.h
> ./arch/ppc/syslib/cpc710.h
> ./arch/um/kernel/tt/include/mode_kern-tt.h
> ./arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/mpc834x_itx.h
> ./drivers/serial/crisv10.h
> ./drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/dbgioctl.h
> ./drivers/char/digi.h
> ./drivers/message/i2o/i2o_lan.h
> ./drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_media.h
> ./drivers/net/skfp/h/lnkstat.h
> ./drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/main_if.h
> ./drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_inb.h
> ./drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_log_fc.h
> ./drivers/video/riva/nv4ref.h
> ./drivers/scsi/pci2000.h
> ./drivers/char/drm/via_mm.h
> ./drivers/net/chelsio/vsc8244_reg.h
> ./include/linux/elfnote.h
> ./sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_sb.h
> ./sound/pci/cs46xx/imgs/cwcemb80.h
> 
>   this list represents an absolute *minimum* of what are apparently
> orphaned header files, in that they are not referenced from *anywhere
> else* in the tree, not even from include directives that are
> currently commented out.  in short, they are truly homeless (assuming
> i didn't screw up my programming, that is).
> 
>   anyone want to get rid of some of them?

Yes. For my part, the file

  ./drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/main_if.h

should be removed.

Shall I write a patch?

Armin
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