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

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Date:   Tue, 1 Dec 2020 19:43:23 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        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 v2 1/7] kbuild: doc: update the description about kbuild Makefiles

On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 8:51 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> 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>
> ---

Applied to linux-kbuild.

>
> (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.
> --
> 2.27.0
>


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada