Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] kbuild: Add "make headers" to "make help" output

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On March 8, 2025 7:12:59 AM PST, Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM Xin Li (Intel) <xin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Meanwhile explicitly state that the headers are uapi headers.
>
>There are many internal-use targets, which are not documented in the
>help message.
>I assume this one is the case.
>
>If users want to install UAPI headers, 'headers_install' is
>the user-visible interface and it is already documented.
>
>
>
>
>
>> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  Makefile | 3 ++-
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>> index 70bdbf2218fc..8f5aa710105e 100644
>> --- a/Makefile
>> +++ b/Makefile
>> @@ -1659,7 +1659,8 @@ help:
>>         @echo  '  kernelrelease   - Output the release version string (use with make -s)'
>>         @echo  '  kernelversion   - Output the version stored in Makefile (use with make -s)'
>>         @echo  '  image_name      - Output the image name (use with make -s)'
>> -       @echo  '  headers_install - Install sanitised kernel headers to INSTALL_HDR_PATH'; \
>> +       @echo  '  headers         - Install sanitised kernel uapi headers to usr/include'
>> +       @echo  '  headers_install - Install sanitised kernel uapi headers to INSTALL_HDR_PATH'; \
>>          echo  '                    (default: $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH))'; \
>>          echo  ''
>>         @echo  'Static analysers:'
>>
>> base-commit: 7eb172143d5508b4da468ed59ee857c6e5e01da6
>> --
>> 2.48.1
>>
>
>
>--
>Best Regards
>Masahiro Yamada
>

Unfortunately it seems users haven't been following that :(





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