Merge tag 'kbuild-fixes-v4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild fixes from Masahiro Yamada:

 - suppress sparse warnings about unknown attributes

 - fix typos and stale comments

 - fix build error of arch/sh

 - fix wrong use of ld-option vs cc-ldoption

 - remove redundant GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS assignment

 - fix another memory leak of Kconfig

 - fix line number in error messages of Kconfig

 - do not write confusing CONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST out to .config

 - add xstrdup() to Kconfig to handle memory shortage errors

 - show also a Debian package name if ncurses is missing

* tag 'kbuild-fixes-v4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  MAINTAINERS: take over Kconfig maintainership
  kconfig: fix line number in recursive inclusion error message
  Coccinelle: memdup: Fix typo in warning messages
  kconfig: Update ncurses package names for menuconfig
  kbuild/kallsyms: trivial typo fix
  kbuild: test --build-id linker flag by ld-option instead of cc-ldoption
  kbuild: drop superfluous GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS assignment
  kconfig: Don't leak choice names during parsing
  sh: fix build error for empty CONFIG_BUILTIN_DTB_SOURCE
  kconfig: set SYMBOL_AUTO to the symbol marked with defconfig_list
  kconfig: add xstrdup() helper
  kbuild: disable sparse warnings about unknown attributes
  Makefile: Fix lying comment re. silentoldconfig

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index fb94072fd80d..541f0c5b71c3 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ PYTHON		= python
 CHECK		= sparse
 
 CHECKFLAGS     := -D__linux__ -Dlinux -D__STDC__ -Dunix -D__unix__ \
-		  -Wbitwise -Wno-return-void $(CF)
+		  -Wbitwise -Wno-return-void -Wno-unknown-attribute $(CF)
 NOSTDINC_FLAGS  =
 CFLAGS_MODULE   =
 AFLAGS_MODULE   =
@@ -584,10 +584,9 @@ ifeq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),)
 # To avoid any implicit rule to kick in, define an empty command
 $(KCONFIG_CONFIG) include/config/auto.conf.cmd: ;
 
-# If .config is newer than include/config/auto.conf, someone tinkered
-# with it and forgot to run make oldconfig.
-# if auto.conf.cmd is missing then we are probably in a cleaned tree so
-# we execute the config step to be sure to catch updated Kconfig files
+# The actual configuration files used during the build are stored in
+# include/generated/ and include/config/. Update them if .config is newer than
+# include/config/auto.conf (which mirrors .config).
 include/config/%.conf: $(KCONFIG_CONFIG) include/config/auto.conf.cmd
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/Makefile silentoldconfig
 else
@@ -862,8 +861,7 @@ KBUILD_AFLAGS   += $(ARCH_AFLAGS)   $(KAFLAGS)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS   += $(ARCH_CFLAGS)   $(KCFLAGS)
 
 # Use --build-id when available.
-LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID := $(patsubst -Wl$(comma)%,%,\
-			      $(call cc-ldoption, -Wl$(comma)--build-id,))
+LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID := $(call ld-option, --build-id)
 KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE += $(LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID)
 LDFLAGS_vmlinux += $(LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID)