Re: [PATCH 2/2] forbid asm/bitops.h direct inclusion

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 01:28:38PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:00:48PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 
> > forbid asm/bitops.h direct inclusion
> > 
> > Because of compile errors that may occur after bit changes if asm/bitops.h is
> > included directly without e.g. linux/kernel.h which includes linux/bitops.h, forbid
> > direct inclusion of asm/bitops.h. Thanks to Adrian Bunk.
> 
> This is the kind of thing that checkpatch.pl is already checking for and
> I like that idea much more than adding thousands of checks over many of
> the header files under asm.

Checks in the header are only for header files where including only the 
asm header doesn't work which doesn't seem to be the common case.

>   Ralf

cu
Adrian

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