Re: kbuild-permanently-fix-kernel-configuration-include-mess.patch added to -mm tree

[Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>]

On 9/14/05, akpm@osdl.org <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> The patch titled
> 
>      kbuild: permanently fix kernel configuration include mess.
> 
> has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
> 
>      kbuild-permanently-fix-kernel-configuration-include-mess.patch
> 
> 
> From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
> 
> Include autoconf.h into every kernel compilation via the gcc command line
> using -imacros.  This ensures that we have the kernel configuration
> included from the start, rather than relying on each file having #include
> <linux/config.h> as appropriate.  History has shown that this is something
> which is difficult to get right.

Not all compilations need config.h included and this slows down gratuitously.
-- 
Coywolf Qi Hunt
http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/
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