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| author | Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> | 2019-01-03 10:10:38 +0900 |
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| committer | Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> | 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +0900 |
| commit | 919987318a129b4d0c2203a3c6fd2d804be77100 (patch) | |
| tree | e072c3709d30b9383ada73673ef9ee4dcc79e9c1 /Documentation | |
| parent | d4ce5458ea1b7d8ca49c436d602095c4912777d3 (diff) | |
| download | linux-919987318a129b4d0c2203a3c6fd2d804be77100.tar.bz2 | |
kbuild: generate asm-generic wrappers if mandatory headers are missing
Some time ago, Sam pointed out a certain degree of overwrap between
generic-y and mandatory-y. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/10/121)
I tweaked the meaning of mandatory-y a little bit; now it defines the
minimum set of ASM headers that all architectures must have.
If arch does not have specific implementation of a mandatory header,
Kbuild will let it fallback to the asm-generic one by automatically
generating a wrapper. This will allow to drop lots of redundant
generic-y defines.
Previously, "mandatory" was used in the context of UAPI, but I guess
this can be extended to kernel space ASM headers.
Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt index 8da26c6dd886..bf28c47bfd72 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt @@ -1296,9 +1296,12 @@ See subsequent chapter for the syntax of the Kbuild file. --- 7.4 mandatory-y - mandatory-y is essentially used by include/uapi/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm - to define the minimum set of headers that must be exported in - include/asm. + mandatory-y is essentially used by include/(uapi/)asm-generic/Kbuild.asm + to define the minimum set of ASM headers that all architectures must have. + + This works like optional generic-y. If a mandatory header is missing + in arch/$(ARCH)/include/(uapi/)/asm, Kbuild will automatically generate + a wrapper of the asm-generic one. The convention is to list one subdir per line and preferably in alphabetic order. |