linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/7] kbuild: doc: update the description about kbuild Makefiles

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Date:   Sat, 28 Nov 2020 20:51:02 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/7] kbuild: doc: update the description about kbuild Makefiles

This line was written in 2003. Now we have much more Makefiles.

The number of Makefiles is not important. The point is we have a
Makefile in (almost) every directory.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
---

(no changes since v1)

 Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
index 0d5dd5413af0..a7b874097a91 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ The Makefiles have five parts::
 	.config			the kernel configuration file.
 	arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile	the arch Makefile.
 	scripts/Makefile.*	common rules etc. for all kbuild Makefiles.
-	kbuild Makefiles	there are about 500 of these.
+	kbuild Makefiles	exist in every subdirectory
 
 The top Makefile reads the .config file, which comes from the kernel
 configuration process.
-- 
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