Re: [PATCH] UAPI: Remove empty Kbuild files

From: Michal Marek
Date: Tue Mar 26 2013 - 19:29:48 EST


On 26.3.2013 23:54, David Howells wrote:
> Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> I want to know whether I should extend my patch to remove include/Kbuild and
>>> any refs to it.
>>
>> make headers_install starts at include/uapi, so include/Kbuild is not
>> needed. And new exported headers end up in inclde/uapi, so there will
>> probably not be need for include/Kbuild in the future either. IMO, just
>> remove it.
>
> That's not all Kbuild does. It also handles autogenerated headers.

That's true. But include/generated is handled by the main Makefile
directly as well.

Michal

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