On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 11:26 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Since commit 7ecaf069da52 ("kbuild: move headers_check rule to
> usr/include/Makefile"), the headers_check target is no-op.
>
> This stub target is remaining here in case some scripts still invoke
> 'make headers_check'. In order to prompt people to remove stale code,
> show a noisy warning message if used. The stub will be really removed
> after the Linux 5.15 release.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
Applied to linux-kbuild.
>
> Makefile | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index f9b54da2fca0..a3336d9b4a22 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -1339,7 +1339,11 @@ headers: $(version_h) scripts_unifdef uapi-asm-generic archheaders archscripts
> # Deprecated. It is no-op now.
> PHONY += headers_check
> headers_check:
> - @:
> + @echo >&2 "=================== WARNING ==================="
> + @echo >&2 "Since Linux 5.5, 'make headers_check' is no-op,"
> + @echo >&2 "and will be removed after Linux 5.15 release."
> + @echo >&2 "Please remove headers_check from your scripts."
> + @echo >&2 "==============================================="
>
> ifdef CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL
> prepare: headers
> --
> 2.27.0
>
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
