Re: [GIT PULL 1/4] Kbuild updates for v4.21

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi Linus,


On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 5:44 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 12:39 PM Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Not exactly what you ask for - but we have make V=2
>
> Yeah, that's certainly more convenient than "make --debug".
>
> That said, I was more thinking of not any particular "oh, it's
> recompiling everything" situation (by then it's too late, obviously),
> but if somebody has been looking at tools for finding and maybe
> breaking some of our deeper include chains.
>
> I know it has come up before (the x86 people did the
> <linux/schedule.h> split some years ago) and then it was all manual.
> But I was kind of hoping that maybe some of the kbuild people had
> looked at this?


Sorry, I do not know more information than Sam provided.

I got rid of some unneeded header inclusions in the past,
but my work was also manual.



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada