[PATCH] Add CONFIG_HEADERS_CHECK option to automatically run 'make headers_check'

[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / lib / Kconfig.debug

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 2d7cb0d04fc8a9762b5460a95cce80f042a0d362..8fd2dbf7eb5b411053ad697b493012e42dcf678c 100644 (file)
--- 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