Le 03/01/2017 à 22:37, Arnd Bergmann a écrit : > On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 3:35:44 PM CET Nicolas Dichtel wrote: >> Regularly, when a new header is created in include/uapi/, the developer >> forgets to add it in the corresponding Kbuild file. This error is usually >> detected after the release is out. >> >> In fact, all headers under include/uapi/ should be exported, so let's >> use wildcards. > > I think the idea makes a lot of sense: if a header is in uapi, we should > really export it. However, using a wildcard expression seems a bit > backwards here, I think we should make this implicit and not have the > Kbuild file at all. > > The "header-y" syntax was originally added back when the uapi headers > were mixed with the internal headers in the same directory. After > David Howells introduced the separate directory for uapi, it has > become a bit redundant. Ok, thank you for the explanation, I was wondering why those Kbuild files were needed. > > Can you try to modify scripts/Makefile.headersinst instead so we > can simply remove the Kbuild files entirely? I will try something. Regards, Nicolas _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
