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authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2006-10-11 01:21:43 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-11 11:14:21 -0700
commit0f836e5fecf59d0d0353e9af11fd14a32a3001ae (patch)
treeb5ac08451e0a7e0aa1f4c8782fed88cf2f909811 /lib
parentc21be1c9c1ab42fe285a74f184e1acbc37ee084b (diff)
downloadlinux-0f836e5fecf59d0d0353e9af11fd14a32a3001ae.tar.gz
[PATCH] Add CONFIG_HEADERS_CHECK option to automatically run 'make headers_check'
In order to encourage people to notice when they break the exported
headers, add a config option which automatically runs the sanity checks
when building vmlinux.  That way, those who use allyesconfig will notice
failures.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.debug13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 2d7cb0d04fc8..8fd2dbf7eb5b 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -371,6 +371,19 @@ config FORCED_INLINING
 	  become the default in the future, until then this option is there to
 	  test gcc for this.
 
+config HEADERS_CHECK
+	bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
+	help
+	  This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
+	  building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
+	  ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
+	  were not exported, etc.
+
+	  If you're making modifications to header files which are
+	  relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers
+	  exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
+	  your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
+
 config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
 	tristate "torture tests for RCU"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL