Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] kbuild: Add "make headers" to "make help" output

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM Xin Li <xin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 3/8/2025 7:12 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM Xin Li (Intel) <xin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Meanwhile explicitly state that the headers are uapi headers.
> >
> > There are many internal-use targets, which are not documented in the
> > help message.
> > I assume this one is the case.
> >
> > If users want to install UAPI headers, 'headers_install' is
> > the user-visible interface and it is already documented.
> >
> >
>
> hpa and Boris prefer to add it, which I also agree.  But ofc it's your
> call :)
>
> If you don't want to add help for "headers", it probably still makes
> sense to explicitly state that the headers are uapi headers, no?
>
> Thanks!
>      Xin


If a help message for "headers" is desired, how about this?

  headers  - Build read-to-install uapi headers in usr/include




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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada