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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: Anish Bhatt <anish@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Anish Bhatt 10 年之前
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      Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt

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Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt

@@ -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
 kernel source code (or using a standard out-of-tree build).  It takes two
 optional arguments:
 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
 ARCH indicates which architecture to produce headers for, and defaults to the
 current architecture.  The linux/asm directory of the exported kernel headers
 current architecture.  The linux/asm directory of the exported kernel headers
@@ -33,8 +33,11 @@ the command:
 
 
   ls -d include/asm-* | sed 's/.*-//'
   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
 The command "make headers_install_all" exports headers for all architectures
 simultaneously.  (This is mostly of interest to distribution maintainers,
 simultaneously.  (This is mostly of interest to distribution maintainers,