kbuild: generate asm-generic wrappers if mandatory headers are missing

Some time ago, Sam pointed out a certain degree of overwrap between
generic-y and mandatory-y. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/10/121)

I tweaked the meaning of mandatory-y a little bit; now it defines the
minimum set of ASM headers that all architectures must have.

If arch does not have specific implementation of a mandatory header,
Kbuild will let it fallback to the asm-generic one by automatically
generating a wrapper. This will allow to drop lots of redundant
generic-y defines.

Previously, "mandatory" was used in the context of UAPI, but I guess
this can be extended to kernel space ASM headers.

Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.headersinst b/scripts/Makefile.headersinst
index 45927fcddbc0..3d1ebaabd1b6 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.headersinst
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.headersinst
@@ -56,13 +56,6 @@ check-file    := $(installdir)/.check
 all-files     := $(header-files) $(genhdr-files)
 output-files  := $(addprefix $(installdir)/, $(all-files))
 
-ifneq ($(mandatory-y),)
-missing       := $(filter-out $(all-files),$(mandatory-y))
-ifneq ($(missing),)
-$(error Some mandatory headers ($(missing)) are missing in $(obj))
-endif
-endif
-
 # Work out what needs to be removed
 oldheaders    := $(patsubst $(installdir)/%,%,$(wildcard $(installdir)/*.h))
 unwanted      := $(filter-out $(all-files),$(oldheaders))