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Documentation: kbuild: Remove obsolete include/asm symlink step

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As of commit f7f16b7799 ("kbuild: drop
include/asm"), the include/asm symlink is no longer created.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Geert Uytterhoeven 2014-08-08 17:23:07 +02:00 committed by Michal Marek
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@ -818,17 +818,16 @@ a few targets.
When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
1) Configuration of the kernel => produce .config
2) Store kernel version in include/linux/version.h
3) Symlink include/asm to include/asm-$(ARCH)
4) Updating all other prerequisites to the target prepare:
3) Updating all other prerequisites to the target prepare:
- Additional prerequisites are specified in arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile
5) Recursively descend down in all directories listed in
4) Recursively descend down in all directories listed in
init-* core* drivers-* net-* libs-* and build all targets.
- The values of the above variables are expanded in arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile.
6) All object files are then linked and the resulting file vmlinux is
5) All object files are then linked and the resulting file vmlinux is
located at the root of the obj tree.
The very first objects linked are listed in head-y, assigned by
arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile.
7) Finally, the architecture-specific part does any required post processing
6) Finally, the architecture-specific part does any required post processing
and builds the final bootimage.
- This includes building boot records
- Preparing initrd images and the like