This line was written in 2003. Now we have much more Makefiles. The number of Makefiles is not important. The point is we have a Makefile in (almost) every directory. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- (no changes since v1) Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst index 0d5dd5413af0..a7b874097a91 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ The Makefiles have five parts:: .config the kernel configuration file. arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile the arch Makefile. scripts/Makefile.* common rules etc. for all kbuild Makefiles. - kbuild Makefiles there are about 500 of these. + kbuild Makefiles exist in every subdirectory The top Makefile reads the .config file, which comes from the kernel configuration process. -- 2.27.0