Re: can we use mandatory-y for non-uapi headers?

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Mon Aug 12 2019 - 11:42:09 EST


Christoph,


On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 4:52 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Masahiro,
>
> 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




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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada