linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] kbuild: Add "make headers" to "make help" output

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Message-ID: <CAK7LNARHvn4Sy-e4hMmjGt0C7TFaWrGJrLq3YvN0BjehZ8QwSg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 00:12:59 +0900
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To: "Xin Li (Intel)" <xin@...or.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, 
	nathan@...nel.org, nicolas@...sle.eu, bp@...en8.de, hpa@...or.com, 
	sraithal@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] kbuild: Add "make headers" to "make help" output

On Sat, Mar 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM Xin Li (Intel) <xin@...or.com> wrote:
>
> Meanwhile explicitly state that the headers are uapi headers.

There are many internal-use targets, which are not documented in the
help message.
I assume this one is the case.

If users want to install UAPI headers, 'headers_install' is
the user-visible interface and it is already documented.





> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
> Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@...or.com>
> ---
>  Makefile | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 70bdbf2218fc..8f5aa710105e 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -1659,7 +1659,8 @@ help:
>         @echo  '  kernelrelease   - Output the release version string (use with make -s)'
>         @echo  '  kernelversion   - Output the version stored in Makefile (use with make -s)'
>         @echo  '  image_name      - Output the image name (use with make -s)'
> -       @echo  '  headers_install - Install sanitised kernel headers to INSTALL_HDR_PATH'; \
> +       @echo  '  headers         - Install sanitised kernel uapi headers to usr/include'
> +       @echo  '  headers_install - Install sanitised kernel uapi headers to INSTALL_HDR_PATH'; \
>          echo  '                    (default: $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH))'; \
>          echo  ''
>         @echo  'Static analysers:'
>
> base-commit: 7eb172143d5508b4da468ed59ee857c6e5e01da6
> --
> 2.48.1
>


--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada