linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: drop FORCE from PHONY targets

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Date:	Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:28:55 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@...tor.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	"linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: drop FORCE from PHONY targets

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 9:08 PM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Andy
>
> 2016-03-14 9:39 GMT+09:00 Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>:
> > On Mar 12, 2016 4:14 PM, "Masahiro Yamada"
> > <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> These targets are marked as PHONY.  No need to add FORCE to their
> >> dependency.
> >
> > If this is, in fact, correct, can you update
> > Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt as well?
>
> Which line do you want me to update?
>

All the references to FORCE should probably mention .PHONY as an alternative.

--Andy

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> Best Regards
> Masahiro Yamada




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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC