linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] kbuild: move KBUILD_LDS, KBUILD_VMLINUX

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Date:   Thu, 15 Aug 2019 01:06:21 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] kbuild: move KBUILD_LDS, KBUILD_VMLINUX_{OBJS,LIBS} to makefiles.rst

These three variables are not intended to be tweaked by users.
Move them from kbuild.rst to makefiles.rst.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
---

I will apply to linux-kbuild this
to avoid conflicts.


 Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst    | 14 --------------
 Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
index 61b2181ed3ea..62f9d86c082c 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
@@ -258,17 +258,3 @@ KBUILD_BUILD_USER, KBUILD_BUILD_HOST
 These two variables allow to override the user@...t string displayed during
 boot and in /proc/version. The default value is the output of the commands
 whoami and host, respectively.
-
-KBUILD_LDS
-----------
-The linker script with full path. Assigned by the top-level Makefile.
-
-KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS
--------------------
-All object files for vmlinux. They are linked to vmlinux in the same
-order as listed in KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS.
-
-KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS
--------------------
-All .a "lib" files for vmlinux. KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS and KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS
-together specify all the object files used to link vmlinux.
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
index f4f0f7ffde2b..d3448d2c8017 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
@@ -995,6 +995,20 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
 	top-level Makefile has set any other flags. This provides a
 	means for an architecture to override the defaults.
 
+    KBUILD_LDS
+
+	The linker script with full path. Assigned by the top-level Makefile.
+
+    KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS
+
+	All object files for vmlinux. They are linked to vmlinux in the same
+	order as listed in KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS.
+
+    KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS
+
+	All .a "lib" files for vmlinux. KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS and
+	KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS together specify all the object files used to
+	link vmlinux.
 
 6.2 Add prerequisites to archheaders
 ------------------------------------
-- 
2.17.1