linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] kbuild: Add a help message for "headers"

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Message-Id: <D8DJ6L3FYOBS.2LX1B9RRJVXA4@avm.de>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:10:14 +0100
From: "Nicolas Schier" <n.schier@....de>
To: "Xin Li (Intel)" <xin@...or.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: <masahiroy@...nel.org>, <nathan@...nel.org>, <nicolas@...sle.eu>,
 <bp@...en8.de>, <hpa@...or.com>, <sraithal@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] kbuild: Add a help message for "headers"

On Tue Mar 11, 2025 at 06:49 CET, Xin Li (Intel) wrote:
> Meanwhile explicitly state that the headers are uapi headers.
>
> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
> Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@...or.com>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> * Revise the help message for "headers" (Masahiro Yamada).
> * Revise the shortlog (Masahiro Yamada).
> ---
>  Makefile | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 70bdbf2218fc..62afeda58080 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	  - Build read-to-install uapi headers in usr/include'

ready-to-install (a 'y' is missing)

> +	@echo  '  headers_install - Install sanitised kernel uapi headers to INSTALL_HDR_PATH'; \

In documentation and comments, UAPI is written in capital letters.  I 
think it would be good to keep it this way here, too.

Kind regards,
Nicolas