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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-08-25 22:40:38 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-08-25 22:40:38 +0200
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parentkbuild: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS (diff)
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Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - add build_{menu,n,g,x}config targets for compile-testing Kconfig - fix and improve recursive dependency detection in Kconfig - fix parallel building of menuconfig/nconfig - fix syntax error in clang-version.sh - suppress distracting log from syncconfig - remove obsolete "rpm" target - remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL(_STR) macro entirely - fix microblaze build with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE - move compiler test for dead code/data elimination to Kconfig - rename well-known LDFLAGS variable to KBUILD_LDFLAGS - misc fixes and cleanups * tag 'kbuild-v4.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: kbuild: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS kbuild: pass LDFLAGS to recordmcount.pl kbuild: test dead code/data elimination support in Kconfig initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ vmlinux.lds.h: remove stale <linux/export.h> include export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() Coccinelle: remove pci_alloc_consistent semantic to detect in zalloc-simple.cocci kbuild: make sorting initramfs contents independent of locale kbuild: remove "rpm" target, which is alias of "rpm-pkg" kbuild: Fix LOADLIBES rename in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt kconfig: suppress "configuration written to .config" for syncconfig kconfig: fix "Can't open ..." in parallel build kbuild: Add a space after `!` to prevent parsing as file pattern scripts: modpost: check memory allocation results kconfig: improve the recursive dependency report kconfig: report recursive dependency involving 'imply' kconfig: error out when seeing recursive dependency kconfig: add build-only configurator targets scripts/dtc: consolidate include path options in Makefile
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/early-userspace/README6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt2
4 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/early-userspace/README b/Documentation/early-userspace/README
index 2c00b072a4c8..1e1057958dd3 100644
--- a/Documentation/early-userspace/README
+++ b/Documentation/early-userspace/README
@@ -66,17 +66,17 @@ early userspace image can be built by an unprivileged user.
As a technical note, when directories and files are specified, the
entire CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE is passed to
-scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh. This means that CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE
+usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh. This means that CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE
can really be interpreted as any legal argument to
gen_initramfs_list.sh. If a directory is specified as an argument then
the contents are scanned, uid/gid translation is performed, and
usr/gen_init_cpio file directives are output. If a directory is
-specified as an argument to scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh then the
+specified as an argument to usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh then the
contents of the file are simply copied to the output. All of the output
directives from directory scanning and file contents copying are
processed by usr/gen_init_cpio.
-See also 'scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh -h'.
+See also 'usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh -h'.
Where's this all leading?
=========================
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
index b176928e6963..79637d227e85 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Documentation/early-userspace/README for more details.)
The kernel does not depend on external cpio tools. If you specify a
directory instead of a configuration file, the kernel's build infrastructure
creates a configuration file from that directory (usr/Makefile calls
-scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh), and proceeds to package up that directory
+usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh), and proceeds to package up that directory
using the config file (by feeding it to usr/gen_init_cpio, which is created
from usr/gen_init_cpio.c). The kernel's build-time cpio creation code is
entirely self-contained, and the kernel's boot-time extractor is also
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
index c54cb7cb9ff4..864e740811da 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ make KBUILD_KCONFIG=Documentation/kbuild/Kconfig.recursion-issue-02 allnoconfig
Practical solutions to kconfig recursive issue
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Developers who run into the recursive Kconfig issue have three options
+Developers who run into the recursive Kconfig issue have two options
at their disposal. We document them below and also provide a list of
historical issues resolved through these different solutions.
@@ -553,7 +553,6 @@ historical issues resolved through these different solutions.
b) Match dependency semantics:
b1) Swap all "select FOO" to "depends on FOO" or,
b2) Swap all "depends on FOO" to "select FOO"
- c) Consider the use of "imply" instead of "select"
The resolution to a) can be tested with the sample Kconfig file
Documentation/kbuild/Kconfig.recursion-issue-01 through the removal
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index 766355b1d221..7b6a2b2bdc98 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ Both possibilities are described in the following.
Example:
#scripts/kconfig/Makefile
- HOSTLOADLIBES_qconf := -L$(QTDIR)/lib
+ HOSTLDLIBS_qconf := -L$(QTDIR)/lib
When linking qconf, it will be passed the extra option
"-L$(QTDIR)/lib".