I don't think there is any point to keeping around the deprecated incremental linking option for too long. So I propose to remove it. After that is removed, I wonder what people think of changing from built-in.o to built-in.a? Thanks, Nick Nicholas Piggin (2): kbuild: remove incremental linking option kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 22 ++++++--- Documentation/process/changes.rst | 2 +- Makefile | 14 +++--- arch/Kconfig | 6 --- arch/blackfin/kernel/bfin_ksyms.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile | 2 +- drivers/s390/Makefile | 2 +- lib/Kconfig.debug | 4 +- scripts/Makefile.build | 38 ++++++--------- scripts/Makefile.lib | 6 +-- scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 99 ++++++++++++++------------------------ scripts/namespace.pl | 2 +- usr/initramfs_data.S | 2 +- 13 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-) -- 2.15.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html