From: Masahiro Yamada Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 11:51:02 +0000 (+0900) Subject: kbuild: doc: update the description about kbuild Makefiles X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b044a535d9a6873a21d622934228cfcc6ee4ea27;p=linux.git kbuild: doc: update the description about kbuild Makefiles This line was written in 2003. Now we have much more Makefiles. The number of Makefiles is not important. The point is we have a Makefile in (almost) every directory. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada --- diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst index 0d5dd5413af03..a7b874097a917 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ The Makefiles have five parts:: .config the kernel configuration file. arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile the arch Makefile. scripts/Makefile.* common rules etc. for all kbuild Makefiles. - kbuild Makefiles there are about 500 of these. + kbuild Makefiles exist in every subdirectory The top Makefile reads the .config file, which comes from the kernel configuration process.