Messages in this thread | | | From | ashutosh dixit <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH linux-next] Documentation: mic: mpssd: Disable mpssd builds for kernels < 3.13 | Date | Tue, 23 Sep 2014 21:51:09 -0700 |
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On Tue, Sep 23 2014 at 05:58:19 PM, Peter Foley <pefoley2@pefoley.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Andrew Morton > <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> Can't we just fix the Makefiles? Cook up a rule which makes >> headers_install (if needed) before building Documentation/? > > Currently, the ordering is enforced by > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/Makefile#n946 > I'll take a look at making Documentation/ depend on headers_install. > I would think it is preferable to keep the 'make headers_install' and 'make Documentation/' steps separate, as they currently are, so that only the people who need to upgrade system headers do that, rather than forcing people to upgrade system headers each time something in Documentation/ is recompiled and moreover doing that compile/install as root.
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