Re: [PATCH 0/3] target: Rename headers using .def extension to .h.inc

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 at 15:40, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> I wonder why we use any of .def, .h.inc, .inc.h, .c.inc, .inc.c.  Why
> not .h and call it a day?  No need to configure each and every editor to
> tread these as C code.

It says "this isn't actually a header in the usual sense". That's
useful for automated scripted checks (eg we don't want
scripts/clean-header-guards.pl to add the standard #include header
guards to this sort of file) and for humans (if you see one of these
files included as part of the normal #include block at the top of
a .c file that's probably a mistake; if you see it being used then
you know there's likely multiple-inclusion shenanigans going on.)

thanks
-- PMM