On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > Would be a worthy goal imho. Can it be done with scripts?
> >
> > Making them self-contained or checking whether they are? :-)
> >
> > The latter is simple, just compile each of them into dummy object files, which
> > should give no compile errors.
>
> It's _not_ simple. Not at all.
>
> We have tons of issues that depend on config variables and architecture
> details.
Indeed, so the config variables and architecture details should be handled in
the include files, not in the (multiple) users of those include files.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [email protected]
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
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