Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755104Ab0G2JBc (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:01:32 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:47887 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751992Ab0G2JBZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:01:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4C51432D.3020600@suse.cz> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:00:29 +0200 From: Michal Marek User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100520 SUSE/3.0.5 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: linux-kbuild , lkml , Denys Vlasenko , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Chen Liqin , David Howells , Geert Uytterhoeven , Haavard Skinnemoen , Hirokazu Takata , Martin Schwidefsky , Mike Frysinger , Ralf Baechle , Tony Luck Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] update of various kbuild flags to allow user settings References: <20100728182523.GA29198@merkur.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20100728182523.GA29198@merkur.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 871 Lines: 25 On 28.7.2010 20:25, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Denys Vlasenko complained that he could not set > a moduel specific linker flags on the command line. > > It turned out that the cause of this was kbuild > that assigned a value to a variables that > may be modified by the user. > So any user supplied value would overwrite > the kbuild assigned value. > > Fix this so we use internal variables for kbuild > feering up the official variables for use by > the user. Acked-by: Michal Marek but I'll wait a while before applying it so that the arch maintainers can object to / ack the arch-specific changes. Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/