Re: [PATCH v2] check headers for complete includes, etc.

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:48:25AM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> 
> If there are no big complaints, I consider this version to be final.
Some small comments..

> --- /dev/null	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.0-test5/scripts/checkheader.pl	2003-09-30 21:41:14.000000000 +0200
> @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
> +#!/usr/bin/perl -w
> +use strict;
> +
> +my $verbose = 1;	# TODO make this optional
Could you make this controlable with option -verbose, see below.

> +my @headers = sort(map({prune($_);}
> +	`(cd include/ && find linux -name "*.h" ; find asm/ -name "*.h")`));
1) you uses include but asm/ - use final '/' for consistency.
2) Using asm/ you require the symlink to be present. Which obvious
it a most when  doing this check, so we better secure that.

> +my $basename = "lib/header";
I much rather have it be: include/headercheck
then people realise where eventual temporary files comes from.

So we need something like the following here: (untested)
>  
> +headercheck: prepare-all
> +	$(PERL) scripts/checkheader.pl $(if $(KBUILD_VERBOSE),-verbose)
> +
>  versioncheck:
>  	find * $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \
>  		-name '*.[hcS]' -type f -print | sort \

With respect to passing on to Linus.
I would like to have a bunch of files converted first so we can see the
effect of requiring this check.
Also I am still a bit uncertain if this is the right approach,
but until now this is the only patch...

	Sam