On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 04:57:03PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > [ Linux commit 5f2fb52fac15a8a8e10ce020dd532504a8abfc4e ] > > In old days, the "host-progs" syntax was used for specifying host > programs. It was renamed to the current "hostprogs-y" in 2004. > > It is typically useful in scripts/Makefile because it allows Kbuild to > selectively compile host programs based on the kernel configuration. > > This commit renames like follows: > > always -> always-y > hostprogs-y -> hostprogs > > So, scripts/Makefile will look like this: > > always-$(CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C) += ... > always-$(CONFIG_KALLSYMS) += ... > ... > hostprogs := $(always-y) $(always-m) > > I think this makes more sense because a host program is always a host > program, irrespective of the kernel configuration. We want to specify > which ones to compile by CONFIG options, so always-y will be handier. > > The "always", "hostprogs-y", "hostprogs-m" will be kept for backward > compatibility for a while. > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- Series applied, thanks Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
