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<title>linux-toradex.git/Documentation/kbuild, branch v5.0</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: generate asm-generic wrappers if mandatory headers are missing</title>
<updated>2019-01-06T00:46:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-03T01:10:38+00:00</published>
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Some time ago, Sam pointed out a certain degree of overwrap between
generic-y and mandatory-y. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/10/121)

I tweaked the meaning of mandatory-y a little bit; now it defines the
minimum set of ASM headers that all architectures must have.

If arch does not have specific implementation of a mandatory header,
Kbuild will let it fallback to the asm-generic one by automatically
generating a wrapper. This will allow to drop lots of redundant
generic-y defines.

Previously, "mandatory" was used in the context of UAPI, but I guess
this can be extended to kernel space ASM headers.

Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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Some time ago, Sam pointed out a certain degree of overwrap between
generic-y and mandatory-y. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/10/121)

I tweaked the meaning of mandatory-y a little bit; now it defines the
minimum set of ASM headers that all architectures must have.

If arch does not have specific implementation of a mandatory header,
Kbuild will let it fallback to the asm-generic one by automatically
generating a wrapper. This will allow to drop lots of redundant
generic-y defines.

Previously, "mandatory" was used in the context of UAPI, but I guess
this can be extended to kernel space ASM headers.

Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: announce removal of SUBDIRS if used</title>
<updated>2018-12-01T13:21:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-20T15:04:18+00:00</published>
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SUBDIRS has been kept as a backward compatibility since
commit ("[PATCH] kbuild: external module support") in 2002.

We do not need multiple ways to do the same thing, so I will remove
SUBDIRS after the Linux 5.3 release. I cleaned up in-tree code, and
updated the document so that nobody would try to use it.

Meanwhile, display the following warning if SUBDIRS is used.

Makefile:189: ================= WARNING ================
Makefile:190: 'SUBDIRS' will be removed after Linux 5.3
Makefile:191: Please use 'M=' or 'KBUILD_EXTMOD' instead
Makefile:192: ==========================================

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon &lt;boris.brezillon@bootlin.com&gt; # for scx200_docflash.c
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt; # for scx200_wdt.c
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SUBDIRS has been kept as a backward compatibility since
commit ("[PATCH] kbuild: external module support") in 2002.

We do not need multiple ways to do the same thing, so I will remove
SUBDIRS after the Linux 5.3 release. I cleaned up in-tree code, and
updated the document so that nobody would try to use it.

Meanwhile, display the following warning if SUBDIRS is used.

Makefile:189: ================= WARNING ================
Makefile:190: 'SUBDIRS' will be removed after Linux 5.3
Makefile:191: Please use 'M=' or 'KBUILD_EXTMOD' instead
Makefile:192: ==========================================

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon &lt;boris.brezillon@bootlin.com&gt; # for scx200_docflash.c
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt; # for scx200_wdt.c
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: remove unused cc-fullversion variable</title>
<updated>2018-11-01T15:15:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-29T16:03:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=3f80babd9ca477d19a027e0b25b95973cd7f7357'/>
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The last user of cc-fullversion was removed by commit f2910f0e6835
("powerpc: remove old GCC version checks").

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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The last user of cc-fullversion was removed by commit f2910f0e6835
("powerpc: remove old GCC version checks").

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/</title>
<updated>2018-09-09T21:08:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Henrik Austad</name>
<email>henrik@austad.us</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-03T22:15:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=a7ddcea58ae22d85d94eabfdd3de75c3742e376b'/>
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This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned)
and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct
way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox.

The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present
in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their
usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal
the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as
a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise
anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers)

A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really
needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps
it is time to just throw them out.

A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first
counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last
is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX.

List of outdated 00-INDEX:
Documentation: (4/10)
Documentation/sysctl: (0/1)
Documentation/timers: (1/0)
Documentation/blockdev: (3/1)
Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1)
Documentation/locking: (0/1)
Documentation/devicetree: (0/5)
Documentation/power: (1/1)
Documentation/powerpc: (0/5)
Documentation/arm: (1/0)
Documentation/x86: (0/9)
Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1)
Documentation/scsi: (4/4)
Documentation/filesystems: (2/9)
Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2)
Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2)
Documentation/kbuild: (0/4)
Documentation/spi: (1/0)
Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0)
Documentation/scheduler: (0/2)
Documentation/fb: (0/1)
Documentation/block: (0/1)
Documentation/networking: (6/37)
Documentation/vm: (1/3)

Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that
are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no
00-INDEX).

I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX,
but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If
we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not
if we just want to delete them anyway.

As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and
see where the discussion is going.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad &lt;henrik@austad.us&gt;
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: [Almost everybody else]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned)
and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct
way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox.

The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present
in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their
usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal
the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as
a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise
anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers)

A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really
needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps
it is time to just throw them out.

A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first
counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last
is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX.

List of outdated 00-INDEX:
Documentation: (4/10)
Documentation/sysctl: (0/1)
Documentation/timers: (1/0)
Documentation/blockdev: (3/1)
Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1)
Documentation/locking: (0/1)
Documentation/devicetree: (0/5)
Documentation/power: (1/1)
Documentation/powerpc: (0/5)
Documentation/arm: (1/0)
Documentation/x86: (0/9)
Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1)
Documentation/scsi: (4/4)
Documentation/filesystems: (2/9)
Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2)
Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2)
Documentation/kbuild: (0/4)
Documentation/spi: (1/0)
Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0)
Documentation/scheduler: (0/2)
Documentation/fb: (0/1)
Documentation/block: (0/1)
Documentation/networking: (6/37)
Documentation/vm: (1/3)

Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that
are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no
00-INDEX).

I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX,
but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If
we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not
if we just want to delete them anyway.

As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and
see where the discussion is going.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad &lt;henrik@austad.us&gt;
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: [Almost everybody else]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: Fix LOADLIBES rename in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T14:21:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Suchanek</name>
<email>msuchanek@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-16T17:05:55+00:00</published>
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Fixes: 8377bd2b9ee1 ("kbuild: Rename HOST_LOADLIBES to KBUILD_HOSTLDLIBS")
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek &lt;msuchanek@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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Fixes: 8377bd2b9ee1 ("kbuild: Rename HOST_LOADLIBES to KBUILD_HOSTLDLIBS")
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek &lt;msuchanek@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kconfig: report recursive dependency involving 'imply'</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T14:21:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-15T05:59:44+00:00</published>
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Currently, Kconfig does not complain about the recursive dependency
where 'imply' keywords are involved.

[Test Code]

  config A
          bool "a"

  config B
          bool "b"
          imply A
          depends on A

In the code above, Kconfig cannot calculate the symbol values correctly
due to the circular dependency.  For example, allyesconfig followed by
syncconfig results in an odd behavior because CONFIG_B becomes visible
in syncconfig.

  $ make allyesconfig
  scripts/kconfig/conf  --allyesconfig Kconfig
  #
  # configuration written to .config
  #
  $ cat .config
  #
  # Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
  # Main menu
  #
  CONFIG_A=y
  $ make syncconfig
  scripts/kconfig/conf  --syncconfig Kconfig
  *
  * Restart config...
  *
  *
  * Main menu
  *
  a (A) [Y/n/?] y
    b (B) [N/y/?] (NEW)

To detect this correctly, sym_check_expr_deps() should recurse to
not only sym-&gt;rev_dep.expr but also sym-&gt;implied.expr .

At this moment, sym_check_print_recursive() cannot distinguish
'select' and 'imply' since it does not know the precise context
where the recursive dependency has been hit.  This will be solved
by the next commit.

In fact, even the document and the unit-test are confused.  Using
'imply' does not solve recursive dependency since 'imply' addresses
the unmet direct dependency, which 'select' could cause.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dirk Gouders &lt;dirk@gouders.net&gt;
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Currently, Kconfig does not complain about the recursive dependency
where 'imply' keywords are involved.

[Test Code]

  config A
          bool "a"

  config B
          bool "b"
          imply A
          depends on A

In the code above, Kconfig cannot calculate the symbol values correctly
due to the circular dependency.  For example, allyesconfig followed by
syncconfig results in an odd behavior because CONFIG_B becomes visible
in syncconfig.

  $ make allyesconfig
  scripts/kconfig/conf  --allyesconfig Kconfig
  #
  # configuration written to .config
  #
  $ cat .config
  #
  # Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
  # Main menu
  #
  CONFIG_A=y
  $ make syncconfig
  scripts/kconfig/conf  --syncconfig Kconfig
  *
  * Restart config...
  *
  *
  * Main menu
  *
  a (A) [Y/n/?] y
    b (B) [N/y/?] (NEW)

To detect this correctly, sym_check_expr_deps() should recurse to
not only sym-&gt;rev_dep.expr but also sym-&gt;implied.expr .

At this moment, sym_check_print_recursive() cannot distinguish
'select' and 'imply' since it does not know the precise context
where the recursive dependency has been hit.  This will be solved
by the next commit.

In fact, even the document and the unit-test are confused.  Using
'imply' does not solve recursive dependency since 'imply' addresses
the unmet direct dependency, which 'select' could cause.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dirk Gouders &lt;dirk@gouders.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kconfig-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2018-08-15T19:50:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-15T19:50:10+00:00</published>
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Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - show clearer error messages where pkg-config is needed, but not
   installed

 - rename SYMBOL_AUTO to SYMBOL_NO_WRITE to reflect its semantics

 - create all necessary directories by Kconfig tool itself instead of
   Makefile

 - update the .config unconditionally when syncconfig is invoked

 - use 'include' directive instead of '-include' where
   include/config/{auto,tristate}.conf is mandatory

 - do not try to update the .config when running install targets

 - add .DELETE_ON_ERROR to delete partially updated files

 - misc cleanups and fixes

* tag 'kconfig-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kconfig: remove P_ENV property type
  kconfig: remove unused sym_get_env_prop() function
  kconfig: fix the rule of mainmenu_stmt symbol
  init/Kconfig: Use short unix-style option instead of --longname
  Kbuild: Makefile.modbuiltin: include auto.conf and tristate.conf mandatory
  kbuild: remove auto.conf from prerequisite of phony targets
  kbuild: do not update config for 'make kernelrelease'
  kbuild: do not update config when running install targets
  kbuild: add .DELETE_ON_ERROR special target
  kbuild: use 'include' directive to load auto.conf from top Makefile
  kconfig: allow all config targets to write auto.conf if missing
  kconfig: make syncconfig update .config regardless of sym_change_count
  kconfig: create directories needed for syncconfig by itself
  kconfig: remove unneeded directory generation from local*config
  kconfig: split out useful helpers in confdata.c
  kconfig: rename file_write_dep and move it to confdata.c
  kconfig: fix typos in description of "choice" in kconfig-language.txt
  kconfig: handle format string before calling conf_message_callback()
  kconfig: rename SYMBOL_AUTO to SYMBOL_NO_WRITE
  kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config
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Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - show clearer error messages where pkg-config is needed, but not
   installed

 - rename SYMBOL_AUTO to SYMBOL_NO_WRITE to reflect its semantics

 - create all necessary directories by Kconfig tool itself instead of
   Makefile

 - update the .config unconditionally when syncconfig is invoked

 - use 'include' directive instead of '-include' where
   include/config/{auto,tristate}.conf is mandatory

 - do not try to update the .config when running install targets

 - add .DELETE_ON_ERROR to delete partially updated files

 - misc cleanups and fixes

* tag 'kconfig-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kconfig: remove P_ENV property type
  kconfig: remove unused sym_get_env_prop() function
  kconfig: fix the rule of mainmenu_stmt symbol
  init/Kconfig: Use short unix-style option instead of --longname
  Kbuild: Makefile.modbuiltin: include auto.conf and tristate.conf mandatory
  kbuild: remove auto.conf from prerequisite of phony targets
  kbuild: do not update config for 'make kernelrelease'
  kbuild: do not update config when running install targets
  kbuild: add .DELETE_ON_ERROR special target
  kbuild: use 'include' directive to load auto.conf from top Makefile
  kconfig: allow all config targets to write auto.conf if missing
  kconfig: make syncconfig update .config regardless of sym_change_count
  kconfig: create directories needed for syncconfig by itself
  kconfig: remove unneeded directory generation from local*config
  kconfig: split out useful helpers in confdata.c
  kconfig: rename file_write_dep and move it to confdata.c
  kconfig: fix typos in description of "choice" in kconfig-language.txt
  kconfig: handle format string before calling conf_message_callback()
  kconfig: rename SYMBOL_AUTO to SYMBOL_NO_WRITE
  kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kconfig: fix typos in description of "choice" in kconfig-language.txt</title>
<updated>2018-07-25T14:25:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-19T05:46:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=08b220b37ffe9ae8f2f0fe4618d03f7c25805fb3'/>
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<content type='text'>
Fix a couple of punctuation "typos" in the description of the
"choice" keyword.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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Fix a couple of punctuation "typos" in the description of the
"choice" keyword.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: if_changed: document single use per target limitation</title>
<updated>2018-07-20T21:50:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dirk Gouders</name>
<email>dirk@gouders.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-18T09:13:36+00:00</published>
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Users of if_changed could easily feel invited to use it to divide a
recipe into parts like:

a: prereq FORCE
	$(call if_changed,do_a)
	$(call if_changed,do_b)

But this is problematic, because if_changed should not be used more
than once per target: in the above example, if_changed stores the
command-line of the given command in .a.cmd and when a is up-to-date
with respect to prereq, the file .a.cmd contains the command-line for
the last command executed, i.e. do_b.

When the recipe is then executed again, without any change of
prerequisites, the command-line check for do_a will fail, do_a will be
executed and stored in .a.cmd.  The next check, however, will still see
the old content (the file isn't re-read) and if_changed will skip
do_b, because the command-line test will not recognize a change.  On
the next execution of the recipe the roles will flip: do_a is OK but
do_b not and it will be executed.  And so on...

Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders &lt;dirk@gouders.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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Users of if_changed could easily feel invited to use it to divide a
recipe into parts like:

a: prereq FORCE
	$(call if_changed,do_a)
	$(call if_changed,do_b)

But this is problematic, because if_changed should not be used more
than once per target: in the above example, if_changed stores the
command-line of the given command in .a.cmd and when a is up-to-date
with respect to prereq, the file .a.cmd contains the command-line for
the last command executed, i.e. do_b.

When the recipe is then executed again, without any change of
prerequisites, the command-line check for do_a will fail, do_a will be
executed and stored in .a.cmd.  The next check, however, will still see
the old content (the file isn't re-read) and if_changed will skip
do_b, because the command-line test will not recognize a change.  On
the next execution of the recipe the roles will flip: do_a is OK but
do_b not and it will be executed.  And so on...

Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders &lt;dirk@gouders.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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<title>kbuild: Use HOST*FLAGS options from the command line</title>
<updated>2018-07-17T16:18:05+00:00</updated>
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<name>Laura Abbott</name>
<email>labbott@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2018-07-10T00:46:02+00:00</published>
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Now that we have the rename in place, reuse the HOST*FLAGS options as
something that can be set from the command line and included with the
rest of the flags.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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Now that we have the rename in place, reuse the HOST*FLAGS options as
something that can be set from the command line and included with the
rest of the flags.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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