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-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt
index 951eb9f1e..f0153adb9 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt
+++ b/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
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,
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index d2b1c40cb..13f888a02 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -755,8 +755,8 @@ Additional files can be specified in kbuild makefiles by use of $(clean-files).
#lib/Makefile
clean-files := crc32table.h
-When executing "make clean", the two files "devlist.h classlist.h" will be
-deleted. Kbuild will assume files to be in the same relative directory as the
+When executing "make clean", the file "crc32table.h" will be deleted.
+Kbuild will assume files to be in the same relative directory as the
Makefile, except if prefixed with $(objtree).
To delete a directory hierarchy use: