From: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
"'Jiri Kosina'" <trivial@kernel.org>,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"dhowells@redhat.com" <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
davej@redhat.com, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH trivial v3] include/uapi/Kbuild: modify the comments for it
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 10:19:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <524A3139.7000905@asianux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5227D9BE.6060009@asianux.com>
On 09/05/2013 09:09 AM, Chen Gang wrote:
> "include/uapi/" is the whole Linux kernel API, it is important enough
> to get more global explanations by comments.
>
> In "include/uapi/Kbuild", "Makefile..." and "non-arch..." comments are
> meaningless for current 'Kbuild', so delete them.
>
Hmm...it is better to improve original comments instead of delete them:
Need give some comments for "arch/*/include/uapi/asm" in
"include/uapi/Kbuild". :-)
> And add more explanations for "include/uapi/" in "include/uapi/Kbuild",
>
"add more explanations" is still need.
I will send patch v4 for it. :-)
Thanks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
> ---
> include/uapi/Kbuild | 7 ++++---
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/Kbuild b/include/uapi/Kbuild
> index 81d2106..287e8d0 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/Kbuild
> +++ b/include/uapi/Kbuild
> @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
> # UAPI Header export list
> -# Top-level Makefile calls into asm-$(ARCH)
> -# List only non-arch directories below
> -
> +#
> +# UAPI means "Userspace API" which will be installed to "/usr/include".
> +# Except "linux/", the other current level directories are for compatibility.
> +# It will not accept the new additional current level directories or files.
>
> header-y += asm-generic/
> header-y += linux/
>
--
Chen Gang
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-01 2:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-06 1:46 [PATCH trivial] UAPI: Kbuild: add/modify comments for "uapi/Kbuild" and "uapi/linux/Kbuild" Chen Gang
2013-08-06 17:31 ` Joe Perches
2013-08-07 2:42 ` Chen Gang
2013-08-07 7:32 ` Rob Landley
2013-08-07 8:48 ` Chen Gang
2013-08-08 2:13 ` Chen Gang
2013-08-21 6:34 ` Chen Gang
2013-08-23 10:30 ` Chen Gang
2013-09-03 5:57 ` Chen Gang
2013-09-05 0:46 ` [PATCH trivial v2] " Chen Gang
2013-09-05 1:05 ` Chen Gang
2013-09-05 1:09 ` [PATCH trivial v3] include/uapi/Kbuild: modify the comments for it Chen Gang
2013-10-01 2:19 ` Chen Gang [this message]
2013-10-01 3:21 ` [PATCH trivial v4] include/uapi/Kbuild: modify comment to provide summary descriptions for Linux UAPI Chen Gang
2013-09-03 16:41 ` [PATCH trivial] UAPI: Kbuild: add/modify comments for "uapi/Kbuild" and "uapi/linux/Kbuild" Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-04 1:08 ` Chen Gang
2013-09-04 7:02 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-04 8:09 ` Chen Gang
2013-09-04 9:02 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-04 9:13 ` Chen Gang
2013-09-04 9:27 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-04 9:38 ` Chen Gang
2013-09-04 11:19 ` Chen Gang
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