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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	llvm@lists.linux.dev, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: Make $(LLVM) more flexible
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2022 10:09:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202203041005.A3B985C@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220304170813.1689186-1-nathan@kernel.org>

On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 10:08:14AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> [...]
> 
> Update and reorder the documentation to reflect these new additions.
> At the same time, notate that LLVM=0 is not the same as just omitting it
> altogether, which has confused people in the past.

Is it worth making LLVM=0 actually act the way it's expected to?

> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200317215515.226917-1-ndesaulniers@google.com/
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220224151322.072632223@infradead.org/
> Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

Looks good; minor .rst nit below...

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

> [...]
> -LLVM has substitutes for GNU binutils utilities. Kbuild supports ``LLVM=1``
> -to enable them. ::
> -
> -	make LLVM=1
> -
> -They can be enabled individually. The full list of the parameters: ::
> +LLVM has substitutes for GNU binutils utilities. They can be enabled individually.
> +The full list of supported make variables: ::

": ::" and "::" yield the same result. I think the latter is more
readable in non-rendered form. *shrug*

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-04 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-04 17:08 [PATCH v2] kbuild: Make $(LLVM) more flexible Nathan Chancellor
2022-03-04 18:09 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2022-03-04 18:15   ` Nathan Chancellor
2022-03-04 18:55     ` Masahiro Yamada
2022-03-07 19:08 ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-03-08 15:47   ` Nathan Chancellor
2022-03-09  9:33     ` Masahiro Yamada
2022-03-10 17:36       ` Nathan Chancellor
2022-03-18  5:16         ` Masahiro Yamada
2022-03-10  0:36     ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-03-08 16:36   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-03-09  9:29     ` Masahiro Yamada

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