From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: can we use mandatory-y for non-uapi headers?
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 20:00:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190812180026.GA15574@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7LNAQfQWNMMLS1-3mE41Ffy3MV9i3VpbWtmKQdUqZjyk8Yqg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 12:41:20AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > what is the reason that the documentation says mandatory-y should only
> > be used for uapi headers?
>
> Where is it documented?
>
> Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst section 7.4 describes
> mandatory-y is essentially used by include/(uapi/)asm-generic/Kbuild
>
> include/(uapi/)asm-generic/Kbuild means:
>
> include/uapi/asm-generic/Kbuild
> include/asm-generic/Kbuild
Ok, maybe it was just me misreading the documentation. In that
case I'll start submitting patches to use it more.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-12 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-10 7:52 can we use mandatory-y for non-uapi headers? Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-12 15:41 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-08-12 18:00 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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