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From: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH kernel v2] powerpc/makefile: Do not redefine $(CPP) for preprocessor
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 13:48:53 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80ae1561-ed8d-cf3a-f3bb-d89cd07bfc24@ozlabs.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210511231635.GR10366@gate.crashing.org>



On 5/12/21 09:16, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 11:30:17PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>> In any case, please mention the reasoning (and the fact that you are
>>> removing these flags!) in the commit message.  Thanks!
>>
>> but i did mention this, the last paragraph... they are duplicated.
> 
> Oh!  I completely missed those few lines.  Sorry for that :-(

Well, I probably should have made it a separate patch anyway, I'll 
repost separately.


> To compensate a bit:
> 
>> It still puzzles me why we need -C
>> (preserve comments in the preprocessor output) flag here.
> 
> It is so that a human can look at the output and read it.  Comments are
> very significant to human readers :-)

I seriously doubt anyone ever read those :) I suspect this is to pull 
all the licenses in one place and do some checking but I did not dig deep.


-- 
Alexey

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-12  3:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-11  4:48 [PATCH kernel v2] powerpc/makefile: Do not redefine $(CPP) for preprocessor Alexey Kardashevskiy
2021-05-11  4:48 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2021-05-11 11:20 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-05-11 11:20   ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-05-11 13:30   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2021-05-11 23:16     ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-05-12  3:48       ` Alexey Kardashevskiy [this message]
2021-05-12 10:26         ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-05-14  3:10           ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-05-14  3:10             ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-05-11 19:18 ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-05-11 19:18   ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-05-12  3:52   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2021-05-12  3:52     ` Alexey Kardashevskiy

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