linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] update of various kbuild flags to allow user settings

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Message-ID: <4C51432D.3020600@suse.cz>
Date:	Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:00:29 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@...plusct.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...el.com>,
	Hirokazu Takata <takata@...ux-m32r.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] update of various kbuild flags to allow user	settings

On 28.7.2010 20:25, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Denys Vlasenko complained that he could not set
> a moduel specific linker flags on the command line.
> 
> It turned out that the cause of this was kbuild
> that assigned a value to a variables that
> may be modified by the user.
> So any user supplied value would overwrite
> the kbuild assigned value.
> 
> Fix this so we use internal variables for kbuild
> feering up the official variables for use by
> the user.

Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>

but I'll wait a while before applying it so that the arch maintainers
can object to / ack the arch-specific changes.

Michal
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