kbuild: generate asm-generic wrappers if mandatory headers are missing
authorMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Thu, 3 Jan 2019 01:10:38 +0000 (10:10 +0900)
committerMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Sun, 6 Jan 2019 00:46:51 +0000 (09:46 +0900)
commit919987318a129b4d0c2203a3c6fd2d804be77100
treee072c3709d30b9383ada73673ef9ee4dcc79e9c1
parentd4ce5458ea1b7d8ca49c436d602095c4912777d3
kbuild: generate asm-generic wrappers if mandatory headers are missing

Some time ago, Sam pointed out a certain degree of overwrap between
generic-y and mandatory-y. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/10/121)

I tweaked the meaning of mandatory-y a little bit; now it defines the
minimum set of ASM headers that all architectures must have.

If arch does not have specific implementation of a mandatory header,
Kbuild will let it fallback to the asm-generic one by automatically
generating a wrapper. This will allow to drop lots of redundant
generic-y defines.

Previously, "mandatory" was used in the context of UAPI, but I guess
this can be extended to kernel space ASM headers.

Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
scripts/Makefile.asm-generic
scripts/Makefile.headersinst