diff --git a/samples/Kconfig b/samples/Kconfig
index 8949e964612525cd34cd7ce1a2b16bc86cef8fac..2560e87c9cae67772e83682fb3878c2e06490d07 100644
--- a/samples/Kconfig
+++ b/samples/Kconfig
@@ -131,6 +131,12 @@ config SAMPLE_SECCOMP
 	  Build samples of seccomp filters using various methods of
 	  BPF filter construction.
 
+config SAMPLE_UHID
+	bool "UHID sample"
+	depends on CC_CAN_LINK && HEADERS_INSTALL
+	help
+	  Build UHID sample program.
+
 config SAMPLE_VFIO_MDEV_MTTY
 	tristate "Build VFIO mtty example mediated device sample code -- loadable modules only"
 	depends on VFIO_MDEV_DEVICE && m
diff --git a/samples/Makefile b/samples/Makefile
index 5ce50ef0f2b2eed9b48ec06aba1202afd3f0e515..bdc16840545274e5882bf74bb8b93c9f84e4bf9e 100644
--- a/samples/Makefile
+++ b/samples/Makefile
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_TRACE_EVENTS)	+= trace_events/
 obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_TRACE_PRINTK)	+= trace_printk/
 obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT)	+= ftrace/
 obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_TRACE_ARRAY)	+= ftrace/
+subdir-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_UHID)		+= uhid
 obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_PCI_SKELETON)	+= v4l/
 obj-y					+= vfio-mdev/
 subdir-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_VFS)		+= vfs
diff --git a/samples/uhid/.gitignore b/samples/uhid/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0e0a5a929f5d078248a0fe15b7c168dfab5e95eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/uhid/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+/uhid-example
diff --git a/samples/uhid/Makefile b/samples/uhid/Makefile
index 5f44ea40d6d5e4591e69978a00d37513ea8bff3d..9e652fc34103472a603737321758c1bee5cfee8f 100644
--- a/samples/uhid/Makefile
+++ b/samples/uhid/Makefile
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
-# List of programs to build
-hostprogs := uhid-example
+userprogs := uhid-example
+always-y := $(userprogs)
 
-# Tell kbuild to always build the programs
-always-y := $(hostprogs)
-
-HOSTCFLAGS_uhid-example.o += -I$(objtree)/usr/include
+userccflags += -I usr/include