diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 19 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 7cdcb962358c..6a6ea4219d1e 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -305,14 +305,23 @@ config DEBUG_FS If unsure, say N. +config HEADERS_INSTALL + bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" + depends on !UML + help + This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) + into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. + This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some + user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such + as uapi header sanity checks. + config HEADERS_CHECK bool "Run sanity checks on uapi headers when building 'all'" - depends on !UML + depends on HEADERS_INSTALL help - This option will extract the user-visible kernel headers when - building the 'all' target, and will run basic sanity checks on them to - ensure that exported files do not attempt to include files which - were not exported, etc. + This option will run basic sanity checks on uapi headers when + building the 'all' target, for example, ensure that they do not + attempt to include files which were not exported, etc. If you're making modifications to header files which are relevant for userspace, say 'Y', and check the headers |