linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: update headers

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Message-ID: <20141203090237.62787e98@lwn.net>
Date:	Wed, 3 Dec 2014 09:02:37 -0500
From:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@...panasonic.com>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: update headers_install.txt document

On Wed,  3 Dec 2014 15:45:41 +0900
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@...panasonic.com> wrote:

> The arch header directories "include/asm-*" were moved long ago.
> Now we should check the existence of arch/*/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild
> to see if an architecture supports the headers installation.
> (Actually, "um" is the only architecture that does not have it.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@...panasonic.com>

So please forgive me if I seem overly difficult and fussy, but...  while
I'm all for fancy shell one-liners, wouldn't it be more straightforward,
in this case, to simply say in the documentation that all architectures
other than um have support?

Thanks,

jon
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