On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 01:11:53AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> >
> > Keeping the 'what it needs' part small is a challenge resulting in
> > smaller .h files. But also a good way to keep related things together.
>
> glad that I stimulated a philosophical discussion
> about the kernel header files and what they should
> include or not ...
>
> but the idea was more to give the developers an
> instrument to verify that they are not including
> stuff several times, and that's actually in .h
> and .c files, because it seems that often the same
> header file is included twice in the _same_ file
>
> anyway, was this a positive or negative reply?
If you can restrict the tool to locate the cases where
a header file is included twice in the same file - then
this is a positive reply.
If you limit the check to the top-level file this is fine,
but I would not be suprised is one or a few .h files
has duplicated includes too.
Sam
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