Re: [PATCH 01/15] kbuild: remove headers_{install,check}_all

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Tue Jun 04 2019 - 14:01:08 EST


On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 07:13:55PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> headers_install_all does not make much sense any more because different
> architectures export different set of uapi/linux/ headers. As you see
> in include/uapi/linux/Kbuild, the installation of a.out.h, kvm.h, and
> kvm_para.h is arch-dependent. So, headers_install_all repeats the
> installation/removal of them.
>
> If somebody really thinks it is useful to do headers_install for all
> architectures, it would be possible by small shell-scripting, but the
> top Makefile do not have to provide entry targets just for that purpose.
Agreed, good to see this be dropped.
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>