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From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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Subject: Re: can we use mandatory-y for non-uapi headers?
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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.