Commit ed45d403 authored by Anish Bhatt's avatar Anish Bhatt Committed by Jonathan Corbet

kbuild : Fix documentation of INSTALL_HDR_PATH

The header install makefile creates an 'include' directory inside
INSTALL_HDR_PATH and appending include to the path results in headers
being installed to include/include.

Don't recommend appending include to the path as makefile already does
this.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnish Bhatt <anish@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent f8785d94
......@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The "make headers_install" command can be run in the top level directory of the
kernel source code (or using a standard out-of-tree build). It takes two
optional arguments:
make headers_install ARCH=i386 INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr/include
make headers_install ARCH=i386 INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr
ARCH indicates which architecture to produce headers for, and defaults to the
current architecture. The linux/asm directory of the exported kernel headers
......@@ -33,8 +33,11 @@ the command:
ls -d include/asm-* | sed 's/.*-//'
INSTALL_HDR_PATH indicates where to install the headers. It defaults to
"./usr/include".
INSTALL_HDR_PATH indicates where to install the headers. It defaults to
"./usr".
An 'include' directory is automatically created inside INSTALL_HDR_PATH and
headers are installed in 'INSTALL_HDR_PATH/include'.
The command "make headers_install_all" exports headers for all architectures
simultaneously. (This is mostly of interest to distribution maintainers,
......
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