linux-kernel - Re: can we use mandatory-y for non-uapi headers?

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Date:   Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:41:20 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: can we use mandatory-y for non-uapi headers?

Christoph,


On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 4:52 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
>
> Hi Masahiro,
>
> what is the reason that the documentation says mandatory-y should only
> be used for uapi headers?

Where is it documented?

Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst section 7.4 describes
mandatory-y is essentially used by include/(uapi/)asm-generic/Kbuild

include/(uapi/)asm-generic/Kbuild means:

include/uapi/asm-generic/Kbuild
include/asm-generic/Kbuild




-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada