Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754733AbcCNEhF (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2016 00:37:05 -0400 Received: from conssluserg003.nifty.com ([202.248.44.41]:27726 "EHLO conssluserg003-v.nifty.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754637AbcCNEhA (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2016 00:37:00 -0400 X-Nifty-SrcIP: [209.85.161.173] MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1457828035-30584-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:36:39 +0900 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: drop FORCE from PHONY targets From: Masahiro Yamada To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Fenghua Yu , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Russell King , Michal Marek , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org" , Nathan Lynch , Tony Luck , "linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "H. Peter Anvin" , X86 ML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 841 Lines: 33 2016-03-14 13:28 GMT+09:00 Andy Lutomirski : > On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 9:08 PM, Masahiro Yamada > wrote: >> >> Hi Andy >> >> 2016-03-14 9:39 GMT+09:00 Andy Lutomirski : >> > On Mar 12, 2016 4:14 PM, "Masahiro Yamada" >> > 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. I do not get your point. All the examples in the makefile.txt correctly reference to FORCE. They are not PHONY targets. No need to update. -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada