* From: David Woodhouse
* Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 11:32:45 -0400
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 13:29 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> Dear Kernel list,
>
> I've noticed in the past that unifdef is used in kernel package
> building. I wonder if you're aware of a maintained and more
> featureful program, Sunifdef, which has evolved from unifdef (which
> seems mostly unmaintained). It's packaged for Fedora, and has a
> website here.
The kernel no longer uses an external unifdef -- it has its own in
scripts/unifdef.c. If you want to work with the upstream kernel to
change that to sunifdef, go ahead.
Can 'sunifdef -U__KERNEL__' fix up stuff like...
#if defined(__KERNEL__) && defined(__FOO__)
and
#if defined(__KERNEL__) || defined(__BAR__)
... by treating them as '#if 0' (and eliding completely) and by
rewriting to just #ifdef __BAR__, respectively? If so, changing the
upstream kernel seems like it would be useful.
If, what you've wrote would be policy (with watchdog script in the git),
i think, simple (sed) scripts can be written to unifdef __KERNEL__ for
userspace headers, with further sed'ing them(compiler.h), without any
need of external or internal *programs*.
Linux coding standards got rid of many C obfustications, happily.
-*-
olecom@flower:/tmp$ grep -e __KERNEL /usr/include/linux/soundcard.h | grep '!'
#if (!defined(__KERNEL__) && !defined(KERNEL) && !defined(INKERNEL)
&& !defined(_KERNEL)) || defined(USE_SEQ_MACROS)
olecom@flower:/tmp$
-*-
Even this one is simple regex, but anyway, policy would be good.
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