Commit 8e2faea877eb ("Make Documenation depend on headers_install")
dates back to 2014, which is before Sphinx was introduced for the
kernel documentation.
Since none of DOC_TARGET requires headers_install, it is strange to
run it only for the single target "Documentation/".
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Makefile | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7745bdd84861..67b866d19269 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1745,8 +1745,7 @@ build-dir = $(patsubst %/,%,$(dir $(build-target)))
PHONY += /
/: ./
-# Make sure the latest headers are built for Documentation
-Documentation/ samples/: headers_install
+samples/: headers_install
%/: prepare FORCE
$(Q)$(MAKE) KBUILD_MODULES=1 $(build)=$(build-dir)
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2.17.1
