From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752796AbaLCOCm (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2014 09:02:42 -0500 Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:35910 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752709AbaLCOCj (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2014 09:02:39 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 09:02:37 -0500 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Masahiro Yamada Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Michal Marek , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: update headers_install.txt document Message-ID: <20141203090237.62787e98@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <1417589141-14814-1-git-send-email-yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com> References: <1417589141-14814-1-git-send-email-yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.24; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 15:45:41 +0900 Masahiro Yamada wrote: > The arch header directories "include/asm-*" were moved long ago. > Now we should check the existence of arch/*/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild > to see if an architecture supports the headers installation. > (Actually, "um" is the only architecture that does not have it.) > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada So please forgive me if I seem overly difficult and fussy, but... while I'm all for fancy shell one-liners, wouldn't it be more straightforward, in this case, to simply say in the documentation that all architectures other than um have support? Thanks, jon