On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >
> > 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.
The point is - _verifying_ that is actually hard.
If some inline function depends on a particular header, you'll have a hard
time checking for that if there's an #ifdef around it. Which is not
uncommon, we have things like:
#ifdef CONFIG_PROCFS
.. number of inline functions ..
#else
#define function1(a,b,c) do { } while (0)
...
#endif
so I'm just saying that "just compile it" is _not_ a way of verifying that
the header file is complete - because it may well be complete for the
particular config you're testing, but not for some other.
So this is a hard problem. If it was easy, we'd not _have_ the problem in
the first place.
Linus
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