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Date:   Fri, 10 Jan 2020 10:00:32 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 10:27:02AM +0800, Zhenzhong Duan wrote:
> Yes. Will you send this formally?

And then a flood of fix-this-trivial-warning patches ensues?

You should know that they have the lowest prio when it comes to looking
at them.

> Not clear if there is other reason making KBUILD_CFLAGS for
> arch/x86/boot/compressed different from other part.

Maybe because the kernel proper build system should not break the
compressed kernel's build as the two are quite different... maybe for
historical raisins...

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