Re: sparse chokes on arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c (was: 2.6.20-mm1)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Feb 15 2007 - 18:47:54 EST


On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:46:56 -0500
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Me too. It's due to the linux-kernel-markers patches. Mathieu, can you
> > take a look please?
>
> I will give a deeper look in sparse, but I should say up front that I
> add this to the root build tree Makefile :
>
> LINUXINCLUDE := -Iinclude \
> $(if $(KBUILD_SRC),-Iinclude2 -I$(srctree)/include) \
> -include include/linux/autoconf.h \
> -include linux/marker.h
>
> I guess sparse is maybe not using this Makefile or variable ?

ow, that's going to hurt - this stuff is complex and fragile.

For what reason was that change made?

Pleeze, tricky things like this should be changelogged - we shouldn't need
to ask. I missed it.


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/