linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] tools: Add Makefile.include

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Message-ID: <20120410205849.GB30366@aftab>
Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:58:49 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] tools: Add Makefile.include

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:27:21PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Hi Borislav.
> 
> Some random comments as I really did not look at this
> part of the patch-set before.

.. and I appreciate those, thanks.

> > +#
> > +# Include saner warnings here, which can catch bugs:
> > +#
> > +EXTRA_WARNINGS := -Wformat
> > +EXTRA_WARNINGS := $(EXTRA_WARNINGS) -Wformat-security
> 
> Two general comments - and I know this is just something you copied...

Yep, I did from perf's Makefile.

> Why not use the += operator. The below looks like shell script syntax.
> And we use the += operator in other places - at least in the kernel stuff.

Yep, this makes this assignment monster a bit more readable, sure.

> AND WHY ALL THESE SCREAMING CAPITAL LETTERS?
> I know Makefiles and scripts are full of them - but that does not help
> the readability.
> 
> For kbuild I generally shifted to use:
> - lower-case names for local stuff
> - Upper case letters for global stuff - properly prefixed to avoid collisions
> EXTRA_WARNINGS likely fall into the category global-stuff,
> but then a local variable could still be usefull.

Well, my intention was to have EXTRA_WARNINGS be a global variable which
all tools under tools/ could start using so that we can benefit from the
compiler doing some more extensive checking. Thus all caps, no?

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