Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kbuild: fixed typos and wording

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Jun 28 2010 - 16:58:55 EST


On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:08:19 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote:

> On 06/28/10 07:56, Michal Marek wrote:
> > On 27.6.2010 02:37, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >> On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:00:21 +0200 Nicolas Kaiser wrote:
> >>
> >>> Fixed some typos and wording.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Randy, are you adding this to the kernel-doc tree? There are already
> > patches from matt mooney, sometimes touching the same paragraphs as this
> > one.
>
> Oh, thanks for the warning, I hadn't noticed that.
> I guess that it makes more sense for me to add this one also
> and fix up any merge problems. Will do.

OK, merged with matt mooney's patches.

Nicolas's resulting patch is here:
http://oss.oracle.com/~rdunlap/kernel-doc-patches/current/docs-kbuild-typos-wording.patch

Thanks.

> > Michal
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >>> ---
> >>> Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt | 8 ++++----
> >>> Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 20 ++++++++++----------
> >>> 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
> >>> index 634c625..0d8addb 100644
> >>> --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
> >>> +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
> >>> @@ -40,15 +40,15 @@ Set the directory to look for the kernel source when building external
> >>> modules.
> >>> The directory can be specified in several ways:
> >>> 1) Use "M=..." on the command line
> >>> -2) Environmnet variable KBUILD_EXTMOD
> >>> -3) Environmnet variable SUBDIRS
> >>> +2) Environment variable KBUILD_EXTMOD
> >>> +3) Environment variable SUBDIRS
> >>> The possibilities are listed in the order they take precedence.
> >>> Using "M=..." will always override the others.
> >>>
> >>> KBUILD_OUTPUT
> >>> --------------------------------------------------
> >>> Specify the output directory when building the kernel.
> >>> -The output directory can also be specificed using "O=...".
> >>> +The output directory can also be specified using "O=...".
> >>> Setting "O=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_OUTPUT.
> >>>
> >>> ARCH
> >>> @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ The script will be called with the following arguments:
> >>> $3 - kernel map file
> >>> $4 - default install path (use root directory if blank)
> >>>
> >>> -The implmentation of "make install" is architecture specific
> >>> +The implementation of "make install" is architecture specific
> >>> and it may differ from the above.
> >>>
> >>> INSTALLKERNEL is provided to enable the possibility to
> >>> diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
> >>> index 71c602d..c0c9b1c 100644
> >>> --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
> >>> +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
> >>> @@ -284,12 +284,12 @@ more details, with real examples.
> >>> --- 3.7 Compilation flags
> >>>
> >>> ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y
> >>> - The three flags listed above applies only to the kbuild makefile
> >>> - where they are assigned. They are used for all the normal
> >>> - cc, as and ld invocation happenign during a recursive build.
> >>> + These three flags apply only to the kbuild makefile in which they
> >>> + are assigned. They are used for all the normal cc, as and ld
> >>> + invocations happening during a recursive build.
> >>> Note: Flags with the same behaviour were previously named:
> >>> EXTRA_CFLAGS, EXTRA_AFLAGS and EXTRA_LDFLAGS.
> >>> - They are yet supported but their use are deprecated.
> >>> + They are still supported but their usage is deprecated.
> >>>
> >>> ccflags-y specifies options for compiling C files with $(CC).
> >>>
> >>> @@ -318,9 +318,9 @@ more details, with real examples.
> >>> ldflags-y := -x
> >>>
> >>> subdir-ccflags-y, subdir-asflags-y
> >>> - The two flags listed above are similar to ccflags-y and as-falgs-y.
> >>> - The difference is that the subdir- variants has effect for the kbuild
> >>> - file where tey are present and all subdirectories.
> >>> + The two flags listed above are similar to ccflags-y and as-flags-y.
> >>> + The difference is that the subdir- variants have effect for the kbuild
> >>> + file where they are present and all subdirectories.
> >>> Options specified using subdir-* are added to the commandline before
> >>> the options specified using the non-subdir variants.
> >>>
> >>> @@ -1176,14 +1176,14 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
> >>> === 7 Kbuild syntax for exported headers
> >>>
> >>> The kernel include a set of headers that is exported to userspace.
> >>> -Many headers can be exported as-is but other headers requires a
> >>> +Many headers can be exported as-is but other headers require a
> >>> minimal pre-processing before they are ready for user-space.
> >>> The pre-processing does:
> >>> - drop kernel specific annotations
> >>> - drop include of compiler.h
> >>> -- drop all sections that is kernel internat (guarded by ifdef __KERNEL__)
> >>> +- drop all sections that are kernel internal (guarded by ifdef __KERNEL__)
> >>>
> >>> -Each relevant directory contain a file name "Kbuild" which specify the
> >>> +Each relevant directory contains a file name "Kbuild" which specifies the
> >>> headers to be exported.
> >>> See subsequent chapter for the syntax of the Kbuild file.

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~Randy
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