linux-stable/Documentation/kbuild
Masahiro Yamada 5f2fb52fac kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y
In old days, the "host-progs" syntax was used for specifying host
programs. It was renamed to the current "hostprogs-y" in 2004.

It is typically useful in scripts/Makefile because it allows Kbuild to
selectively compile host programs based on the kernel configuration.

This commit renames like follows:

  always       ->  always-y
  hostprogs-y  ->  hostprogs

So, scripts/Makefile will look like this:

  always-$(CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C) += ...
  always-$(CONFIG_KALLSYMS)    += ...
      ...
  hostprogs := $(always-y) $(always-m)

I think this makes more sense because a host program is always a host
program, irrespective of the kernel configuration. We want to specify
which ones to compile by CONFIG options, so always-y will be handier.

The "always", "hostprogs-y", "hostprogs-m" will be kept for backward
compatibility for a while.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
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headers_install.rst Kbuild updates for v5.3 2019-07-12 16:03:16 -07:00
index.rst Documentation: kbuild: Add document about reproducible builds 2019-09-15 01:14:41 -06:00
issues.rst docs: kbuild: fix build with pdf and fix some minor issues 2019-07-15 11:03:04 -03:00
kbuild.rst kbuild: rename KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS to KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN 2019-09-06 23:46:52 +09:00
kconfig-language.rst kconfig: fix documentation typos 2020-01-22 00:54:35 +09:00
kconfig-macro-language.rst docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
Kconfig.recursion-issue-01 kbuild: document recursive dependency limitation / resolution 2015-10-08 15:36:16 +02:00
Kconfig.recursion-issue-02 kbuild: document recursive dependency limitation / resolution 2015-10-08 15:36:16 +02:00
kconfig.rst kbuild: create modules.builtin without Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf 2020-01-07 02:18:39 +09:00
Kconfig.select-break kbuild: document recursive dependency limitation / resolution 2015-10-08 15:36:16 +02:00
makefiles.rst kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
modules.rst kbuild: do not read $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Module.symvers 2019-11-11 20:07:03 +09:00
reproducible-builds.rst kheaders: make headers archive reproducible 2019-10-05 15:29:49 +09:00