Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: add support for ensuring headers are self-contained

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Tue Jun 04 2019 - 13:29:59 EST


On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 03:42:48PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> Sometimes it's useful to be able to explicitly ensure certain headers
> remain self-contained, i.e. that they are compilable as standalone
> units, by including and/or forward declaring everything they depend on.
>
> Add special target header-test-y where individual Makefiles can add
> headers to be tested if CONFIG_HEADER_TEST is enabled. This will
> generate a dummy C file per header that gets built as part of extra-y.
>
> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks good, thanks.

Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>