From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: update headers_install.txt document
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 09:02:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141203090237.62787e98@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1417589141-14814-1-git-send-email-yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 15:45:41 +0900
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
> The arch header directories "include/asm-*" were moved long ago.
> Now we should check the existence of arch/*/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild
> to see if an architecture supports the headers installation.
> (Actually, "um" is the only architecture that does not have it.)
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
So please forgive me if I seem overly difficult and fussy, but... while
I'm all for fancy shell one-liners, wouldn't it be more straightforward,
in this case, to simply say in the documentation that all architectures
other than um have support?
Thanks,
jon
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2014-12-03 6:45 [PATCH] kbuild: update headers_install.txt document Masahiro Yamada
2014-12-03 14:02 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
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