linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] UAPI: Remove empty Kbuild files

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Date:	Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:29:38 +0100
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, arnd@...db.de,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UAPI: Remove empty Kbuild files

On 26.3.2013 23:54, David Howells wrote:
> Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz> wrote:
> 
>>> I want to know whether I should extend my patch to remove include/Kbuild and
>>> any refs to it.
>>
>> make headers_install starts at include/uapi, so include/Kbuild is not
>> needed. And new exported headers end up in inclde/uapi, so there will
>> probably not be need for include/Kbuild in the future either. IMO, just
>> remove it.
> 
> That's not all Kbuild does.  It also handles autogenerated headers.

That's true. But include/generated is handled by the main Makefile
directly as well.

Michal

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