linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] KVM: selftests: Add EXTRA

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Date:   Fri, 26 Nov 2021 17:15:31 +0100
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Anup Patel <anup.patel@....com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Atish Patra <atishp@...shpatra.org>
Cc:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Alistair Francis <Alistair.Francis@....com>,
        Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] KVM: selftests: Add EXTRA_CFLAGS in top-level
 Makefile

On 11/26/21 16:40, Anup Patel wrote:
> We add EXTRA_CFLAGS to the common CFLAGS of top-level Makefile
> which will allow users to pass additional compile-time flags such
> as "-static".

Is this just for debugging?  I cannot understand if it's used in patch 4.

Paolo