linux-kernel - Re: headers-y for machines

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Message-ID: <20081120190819.GA15838@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:08:19 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@...s.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: headers-y for machines

Hi Mikael.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 09:48:45AM +0100, Mikael Starvik wrote:
> Lets say you have arch/arm/mach-xx/include/mach/myfile.h and want to add myfile.h to header-y. How do you do that?
> 
> I tried to add 
> 
> header-y += ../../maxh-xx/
> 
> in arch/arm/include/asm/Kbuild
> 
> and then
> header-y += myfile.h in arch/arm/mach-xx/include/mach/Kbuild

When we did the header file rearrange I had not foreseen that we would export header files
located anywhere else than include/* and arch/$ARCH/include so there is
no way to properly export files located in arch/$ARCH/mach-foo/...

Do we really want to export files form this location to userspace?

	Sam
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