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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2025-04-05 15:46:50 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2025-04-05 15:46:50 -0700
commitf4d2ef48250ad057e4f00087967b5ff366da9f39 (patch)
tree3dc3df2372bf6670f08b19580ec077eeda0b37fe /Documentation/dev-tools
parent758e4c86a159bdd67a8ef60ea118ddb8b2043714 (diff)
parenta7c699d090a1f3795c3271c2b399230e182db06e (diff)
Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Improve performance in gendwarfksyms - Remove deprecated EXTRA_*FLAGS and KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS - Support CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL for ARCH=um - Use more relative paths to sources files for better reproducibility - Support the loong64 Debian architecture - Add Kbuild bash completion - Introduce intermediate vmlinux.unstripped for architectures that need static relocations to be stripped from the final vmlinux - Fix versioning in Debian packages for -rc releases - Treat missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() as an error - Convert Nios2 Makefiles to use the generic rule for built-in DTB - Add debuginfo support to the RPM package * tag 'kbuild-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (40 commits) kbuild: rpm-pkg: build a debuginfo RPM kconfig: merge_config: use an empty file as initfile nios2: migrate to the generic rule for built-in DTB rust: kbuild: skip `--remap-path-prefix` for `rustdoc` kbuild: pacman-pkg: hardcode module installation path kbuild: deb-pkg: don't set KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION unconditionally modpost: require a MODULE_DESCRIPTION() kbuild: make all file references relative to source root x86: drop unnecessary prefix map configuration kbuild: deb-pkg: add comment about future removal of KDEB_COMPRESS kbuild: Add a help message for "headers" kbuild: deb-pkg: remove "version" variable in mkdebian kbuild: deb-pkg: fix versioning for -rc releases Documentation/kbuild: Fix indentation in modules.rst example x86: Get rid of Makefile.postlink kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with relocations preserved kbuild: Introduce Kconfig symbol for linking vmlinux with relocations kbuild: link-vmlinux.sh: Make output file name configurable kbuild: do not generate .tmp_vmlinux*.map when CONFIG_VMLINUX_MAP=y Revert "kheaders: Ignore silly-rename files" ...
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@@ -342,24 +342,6 @@ API usage
See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/RCU/whatisRCU.html#full-list-of-rcu-apis
- **DEPRECATED_VARIABLE**
- EXTRA_{A,C,CPP,LD}FLAGS are deprecated and should be replaced by the new
- flags added via commit f77bf01425b1 ("kbuild: introduce ccflags-y,
- asflags-y and ldflags-y").
-
- The following conversion scheme maybe used::
-
- EXTRA_AFLAGS -> asflags-y
- EXTRA_CFLAGS -> ccflags-y
- EXTRA_CPPFLAGS -> cppflags-y
- EXTRA_LDFLAGS -> ldflags-y
-
- See:
-
- 1. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20070930191054.GA15876@uranus.ravnborg.org/
- 2. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1313384834-24433-12-git-send-email-lacombar@gmail.com/
- 3. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/kbuild/makefiles.html#compilation-flags
-
**DEVICE_ATTR_FUNCTIONS**
The function names used in DEVICE_ATTR is unusual.
Typically, the store and show functions are used with <attr>_store and