[PATCH] kbuild: permanently fix kernel configuration include mess

Include autoconf.h into every kernel compilation via the gcc command line
using -imacros.  This ensures that we have the kernel configuration
included from the start, rather than relying on each file having #include
<linux/config.h> as appropriate.  History has shown that this is something
which is difficult to get right.

Since we now include the kernel configuration automatically, make
configcheck becomes meaningless, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/config.h b/include/linux/config.h
index 9d1c14f7ad6d..a91f5e55b525 100644
--- a/include/linux/config.h
+++ b/include/linux/config.h
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #ifndef _LINUX_CONFIG_H
 #define _LINUX_CONFIG_H
-
+/* This file is no longer in use and kept only for backward compatibility.
+ * autoconf.h is now included via -imacros on the commandline
+ */
 #include <linux/autoconf.h>
 
 #endif