Commit 1ab7a1f3 authored by David Woodhouse's avatar David Woodhouse Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] headers_check: use a different default directory 



`make headers_check' wants to go and write stuff in /lib/modules, which
requires root, whic is unfortunate.

In fact, there's no _particular_ reason for headers_install to put it there
either -- it can go into a subdirectory of the build tree in both cases.
It's not intended to go directly into /usr/include, which is why we didn't
put it there -- and we certainly don't want people screwing around with
symlinking to it.  It's for distributors to take away and do stuff with, so
leaving it in $(objtree) is fine, even in the headers_install case.

I picked $(objtree)/usr/include but I have no _particular_ preference
for that; it just seemed reasonable.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent ae81f9e3

Makefile

+3 −3
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@@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ depend dep: 


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Kernel headers

INSTALL_HDR_PATH=$(MODLIB)/abi

INSTALL_HDR_PATH=$(objtree)/usr

export INSTALL_HDR_PATH



PHONY += headers_install
@@ -986,7 +986,7 @@ CLEAN_FILES += vmlinux System.map \ 
                .tmp_kallsyms* .tmp_version .tmp_vmlinux* .tmp_System.map



# Directories & files removed with 'make mrproper'

MRPROPER_DIRS  += include/config include2

MRPROPER_DIRS  += include/config include2 usr/include

MRPROPER_FILES += .config .config.old include/asm .version .old_version \

                  include/linux/autoconf.h include/linux/version.h      \

                  include/linux/utsrelease.h                            \
@@ -1077,7 +1077,7 @@ help: 
	@echo  '  kernelrelease	  - Output the release version string'

	@echo  '  kernelversion	  - Output the version stored in Makefile'

	@echo  '  headers_install - Install sanitised kernel headers to INSTALL_HDR_PATH'

	@echo  '                    (default: /lib/modules/$$VERSION/abi)'

	@echo  '                    (default: $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH))'

	@echo  ''

	@echo  'Static analysers'

	@echo  '  checkstack      - Generate a list of stack hogs'

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