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

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Date:   Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:11:04 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] kbuild: move KBUILD_LDS, KBUILD_VMLINUX_{OBJS,LIBS}
 to makefiles.rst

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 1:06 AM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> wrote:
>
> 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>
> ---
>

Applied to linux-kbuild.


> 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
>


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada