Prior to commit 257edce66d31 ("kbuild: exploit parallel building for
CONFIG_HEADERS_CHECK"), the sanity check of exported headers was done
as a side-effect of build rule of vmlinux.
That commit is good, but I missed to update the prompt of the Kconfig
entry. For the sake of preciseness, lets' say "when building 'all'".
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/Kconfig.debug | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index cbdfae379896..7cdcb962358c 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -306,11 +306,11 @@ config DEBUG_FS
If unsure, say N.
config HEADERS_CHECK
- bool "Run 'make headers_check' when building vmlinux"
+ bool "Run sanity checks on uapi headers when building 'all'"
depends on !UML
help
- This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers whenever
- building the kernel, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
+ This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers when
+ building the 'all' target, and will run basic sanity checks on them to
ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which
were not exported, etc.
--
2.17.1
