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Masahiro Yamada 919987318a 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>
2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
arch arch: remove stale comments "UAPI Header export list" 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
block for-4.21/block-20190102 2019-01-02 18:49:58 -08:00
certs kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
crypto Kconfig updates for v4.21 2018-12-29 13:03:29 -08:00
Documentation kbuild: generate asm-generic wrappers if mandatory headers are missing 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
drivers Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux 2019-01-05 16:07:28 -08:00
firmware kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { } 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
fs three fixes, one for stable, one adds the (most secure) SMB3.1.1 dialect to default list requested 2019-01-05 14:05:06 -08:00
include arch: remove stale comments "UAPI Header export list" 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
init jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
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sound Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.