linux-kernel - Re: [incremental-PATCH-for-Sam's-Review] ACPI: use ccflags-y instead of EXTRA

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Message-ID: <20090102224612.GE496@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Fri, 2 Jan 2009 23:46:12 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [incremental-PATCH-for-Sam's-Review] ACPI: use ccflags-y instead of EXTRA_CFLAGS

> It appears that the entire kernel is now built with -Os by default,

It's default in defconfig, but not necessarily in all configs people
are using.

> so it looks like this is now redundant in the default case and will
> have an effect only when somebody disables CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
> to build with -O2.
> 
> So I'm willing to delete -Os from the ACPI Makefile
> in the interest of simplicity.

I would keep it. In fact it might make sense to expand explicit -Os
to more subsystems.

-Andi

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