some simple(?) questions about Kbuild and installing kernel headers

[Greg KH]

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 07:53:00AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   for various reasons, i'm poring over the grotty details of the
> installation of kernel headers, so a couple questions before i get any
> further into the code.
> 
>   first, is there any value to a Kbuild file with no content? for
> example, here's the entirety of
> arch/cris/include/arch-v10/arch/Kbuild:
> 
> # CRISv10 arch
> 
> that is, one commented-out line, no references to any include files.
> does such a file have any meaning? or can such files be deleted until
> such time as they need to contain some content?

Try removing it and see if building the chris arch works! :)