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authorSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>2010-07-28 19:11:27 +0200
committerMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>2010-08-03 14:09:45 +0200
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kbuild: allow assignment to {A,C}FLAGS_KERNEL on the command line
It is now possible to assign options to AS and CC on the command line - which is only used for built-in code. {A,C}FLAGS_KERNEL was used both in the top-level Makefile in the arch makefiles, thus users had no way to specify additional options to AS, CC without overriding the original value. Introduce a new set of variables KBUILD_{A,C}FLAGS_KERNEL that is used by arch specific files and free up {A,C}FLAGS_KERNEL so they can be assigned on the command line. All arch Makefiles that used the old variables has been updated. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kbuild')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt9
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
index d9c655433ec6..e903f20077cf 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
@@ -28,10 +28,20 @@ AFLAGS_MODULE
--------------------------------------------------
Addtional module specific options to use for $(AS).
+AFLAGS_KERNEL
+--------------------------------------------------
+Addtional options for $(AS) when used for assembler
+code for code that is compiled as built-in.
+
KCFLAGS
--------------------------------------------------
Additional options to the C compiler (for built-in and modules).
+CFLAGS_KERNEL
+--------------------------------------------------
+Addtional options for $(CC) when used to compile
+code that is compiled as built-in.
+
CFLAGS_MODULE
--------------------------------------------------
Addtional module specific options to use for $(CC).
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index 802341abf702..5c878cc6c0b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -923,9 +923,9 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
The first example utilises the trick that a config option expands
to 'y' when selected.
- CFLAGS_KERNEL $(CC) options specific for built-in
+ KBUILD_AFLAGS_KERNEL $(AS) options specific for built-in
- $(CFLAGS_KERNEL) contains extra C compiler flags used to compile
+ $(KBUILD_AFLAGS_KERNEL) contains extra C compiler flags used to compile
resident kernel code.
KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE Options for $(AS) when building modules
@@ -934,6 +934,11 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
are used for $(AS).
From commandline AFLAGS_MODULE shall be used (see kbuild.txt).
+ KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL $(CC) options specific for built-in
+
+ $(KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL) contains extra C compiler flags used to compile
+ resident kernel code.
+
KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE Options for $(CC) when building modules
$(KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE) is used to add arch specific options that