linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: replace genhdr-y with generated-y, deprecating genhdr-y

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Message-ID: <CAK7LNAToMSMNFAKd-NHwvx=yAjFaho0qPk-6zU13WZbzfPbxqw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 22 Jun 2017 10:18:38 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: replace genhdr-y with generated-y, deprecating genhdr-y

2017-06-09 17:29 GMT+09:00 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>:
> Prior to commit fcc8487d477a ("uapi: export all headers under uapi
> directories"), genhdr-y was meant to specify generated UAPI headers.
>
> - generated-y: generated headers (other than asm-generic wrappers)
> - header-y   : headers to be exported
> - genhdr-y   : generated headers to be exported (generated-y + header-y)
>
> Now headers under UAPI directories are all exported.  So, there is no
> more difference between generated-y and genhdr-y.
>
> We see two users of genhdr-y, arch/{arm,x86}/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild.
> They generate some headers in arch/{arm,x86}/include/uapi/generated/
> directories, which are obviously exported.
>
> Replace genhdr-y with generated-y, and deprecate genhdr-y.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>

Applied to linux-kbuild/kbuild.



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada