On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:07:34PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 12:09:29 +0900 > > > Unfortunately this seems like it is going to be more tedious than > > we first thought. I would guess writing some sort of tool to analyse > > symbols and headers is the way to go. Else it seems more or less > > impossible to clean up headers, even on a small scale. > > It's doable on a small scale, you just have to approach the problem > from the other direction. Ie. pick a header file and audit the use of > that specific header file across the tree. > > Folks have done this with headers like linux/sched.h and friends in > the past.
Point taken. I imagine a tool could digest this reasonably efficiently. Its just doing it by hand which is somewhat labourious. > And it's worthwhile because anything that minimises kernel rebuild > when touching a header file helps streamline development. Agreed -- Horms - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
