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Date:   Fri, 21 Feb 2020 01:28:16 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: remove wrong documentation about mandatory-y

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:15 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> This sentence does not make sense in the section about mandatory-y.
>
> This seems to be a copy-paste mistake of commit fcc8487d477a ("uapi:
> export all headers under uapi directories").
>
> The correct description would be "The convention is to list one
> mandatory-y per line ...".
>
> I just removed it instead of fixing it. If such information is needed,
> it could be commented in include/asm-generic/Kbuild and
> include/uapi/asm-generic/Kbuild.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>


Applied to linux-kbuild.

> ---
>
>  Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
> index 0e0eb2c8da7d..4018ad7c7a11 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
> @@ -1379,9 +1379,6 @@ See subsequent chapter for the syntax of the Kbuild file.
>         in arch/$(ARCH)/include/(uapi/)/asm, Kbuild will automatically generate
>         a wrapper of the asm-generic one.
>
> -       The convention is to list one subdir per line and
> -       preferably in alphabetic order.
> -
>  8 Kbuild Variables
>  ==================
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada