* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:46:56 -0500
> Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
> 

Sorry, I will remember to do more explicit changelogs.

> For what reason was that change made?
> 

It was made so that we can use the markers in C code without actually
including marker.h everywhere. I am sure someone has a better way to do
it : I would be happy to use this-nice-build-system-feature-I-missed to
have marker.h included.

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

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Mathieu Desnoyers
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