linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: remove duplicated arch/*/include/generated/uapi include path

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Date:   Sat, 10 Jun 2017 01:34:11 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: remove duplicated arch/*/include/generated/uapi
 include path

2017-06-06 16:15 GMT+09:00 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>:
> Commit 90ac086bca10 ("Makefile: include arch/*/include/generated/uapi
> before .../generated") introduced this for bisect'ability.  The commit
> chose to promote arch/*/include/generated/uapi in the search path
> rather than cleaning stale headers.
>
> After all, we found that approach was not enough, and ended up with
> cleaning stale headers by commit cda2c65f981d ("kbuild: Remove stale
> asm-generic wrappers").
>
> So, the extra search path is no longer needed because Kbuild invokes
> scripts/Makefile.asm-generic and remove stale headers before it starts
> descending.
>
> This commit is also reverting commit dc33db7c338e ("Kbuild: avoid
> duplicate include path") because we have no more duplicated path.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>


Applied to linux-kbuild/kbuild.



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada