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authorSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>2009-04-10 10:52:43 +0400
committerSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>2009-04-11 10:18:08 +0400
commitc7bb349e7c25df1ae1bbb72675b9bb02e1d9c464 (patch)
treea406b9af934e7541a9c000a74419e1ba09664c7e /Documentation/kbuild
parent4774bb1ced60a94d83b28e5a42d4cf01b83d9b60 (diff)
downloadlinux-c7bb349e7c25df1ae1bbb72675b9bb02e1d9c464.tar.xz
kbuild: introduce destination-y for exported headers
xtensa and arm have asked for a possibility to export headers and locate them in a specific directory when exported. Introduce destiantion-y to support this. This patch in additiona adds some limited documentation for the variables used for exported headers. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Oskar Schirmer <os@emlix.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt83
1 files changed, 75 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index 51104f9194a5..d4b05672f9f7 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -40,10 +40,16 @@ This document describes the Linux kernel Makefiles.
--- 6.7 Custom kbuild commands
--- 6.8 Preprocessing linker scripts
- === 7 Kbuild Variables
- === 8 Makefile language
- === 9 Credits
- === 10 TODO
+ === 7 Kbuild syntax for exported headers
+ --- 7.1 header-y
+ --- 7.2 objhdr-y
+ --- 7.3 destination-y
+ --- 7.4 unifdef-y (deprecated)
+
+ === 8 Kbuild Variables
+ === 9 Makefile language
+ === 10 Credits
+ === 11 TODO
=== 1 Overview
@@ -1143,8 +1149,69 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
The kbuild infrastructure for *lds file are used in several
architecture-specific files.
+=== 7 Kbuild syntax for exported headers
+
+The kernel include a set of headers that is exported to userspace.
+Many headers can be exported as-is but other headers requires a
+minimal pre-processing before they are ready for user-space.
+The pre-processing does:
+- drop kernel specific annotations
+- drop include of compiler.h
+- drop all sections that is kernel internat (guarded by ifdef __KERNEL__)
+
+Each relevant directory contain a file name "Kbuild" which specify the
+headers to be exported.
+See subsequent chapter for the syntax of the Kbuild file.
+
+ --- 7.1 header-y
+
+ header-y specify header files to be exported.
+
+ Example:
+ #include/linux/Kbuild
+ header-y += usb/
+ header-y += aio_abi.h
+
+ The convention is to list one file per line and
+ preferably in alphabetic order.
+
+ header-y also specify which subdirectories to visit.
+ A subdirectory is identified by a trailing '/' which
+ can be seen in the example above for the usb subdirectory.
+
+ Subdirectories are visited before their parent directories.
+
+ --- 7.2 objhdr-y
+
+ objhdr-y specifies generated files to be exported.
+ Generated files are special as they need to be looked
+ up in another directory when doing 'make O=...' builds.
+
+ Example:
+ #include/linux/Kbuild
+ objhdr-y += version.h
+
+ --- 7.3 destination-y
+
+ When an architecture have a set of exported headers that needs to be
+ exported to a different directory destination-y is used.
+ destination-y specify the destination directory for all exported
+ headers in the file where it is present.
+
+ Example:
+ #arch/xtensa/platforms/s6105/include/platform/Kbuild
+ destination-y := include/linux
+
+ In the example above all exported headers in the Kbuild file
+ will be located in the directory "include/linux" when exported.
+
+
+ --- 7.4 unifdef-y (deprecated)
+
+ unifdef-y is deprecated. A direct replacement is header-y.
+
-=== 7 Kbuild Variables
+=== 8 Kbuild Variables
The top Makefile exports the following variables:
@@ -1206,7 +1273,7 @@ The top Makefile exports the following variables:
INSTALL_MOD_STRIP will used as the option(s) to the strip command.
-=== 8 Makefile language
+=== 9 Makefile language
The kernel Makefiles are designed to be run with GNU Make. The Makefiles
use only the documented features of GNU Make, but they do use many
@@ -1225,14 +1292,14 @@ time the left-hand side is used.
There are some cases where "=" is appropriate. Usually, though, ":="
is the right choice.
-=== 9 Credits
+=== 10 Credits
Original version made by Michael Elizabeth Chastain, <mailto:mec@shout.net>
Updates by Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Updates by Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Language QA by Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
-=== 10 TODO
+=== 11 TODO
- Describe how kbuild supports shipped files with _shipped.
- Generating offset header files.