On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > > Though either way I am not sure these would have to be put in Kconfig or > > Makefile anywhere. A generic way should be enough for the insistent as > > the potentially useful options may proliferate; we have the CFLAGS_KERNEL > > and CFLAGS_MODULE Makefile variables that would suit for setting upon > > `make' invocation. > > In that case very few people would use this optimization. It's their problem then, isn't it? > We could just have one new Kconfig option in kernel hacking submenu: > > config EXTRA_CFLAGS > string > help > If you want to pass additionnal option to GCC > for optimization purpose for example, use this. I don't think we want to see clueless reports from people who have not bothered themselves to understand how `make' works and happened to put some rubbish into CONFIG_EXTRA_CFLAGS. Do we? Maciej
