From a887a07d51be6c7cd2c4c373cd17273158d6a85d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:45:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: sparse needs CF not CHECKFLAGS Documentation/sparse.txt tells to use: make C=2 CHECKFLAGS="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__" However, this still doesn't enable endian checks. The correct syntax is: make C=2 CF="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__" This documentation bug was introduced by the following commit: commit 1c7bafe7206d928eaccbcbd08d868733e0fb7054 Author: Robert P. J. Day Date: Wed Sep 13 07:57:50 2006 -0400 kbuild: clarify "make C=" build option Clarify the use of "make C=" in the top-level Makefile, and fix a typo in the Documentation file. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg This `typo' was not a typo, as `CF' had been introduced much earlier, by: commit 7b49bb9aff8b14d15da58111d8908c877c0a525e Author: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk Date: Fri Sep 9 21:14:35 2005 +0100 [PATCH] kbuild: CF= passes arguments to sparse Allows to add to sparse arguments without mutilating makefiles - just pass CF= and they will be added to CHECKFLAGS. Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg --- Documentation/sparse.txt | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/sparse.txt b/Documentation/sparse.txt index 1a3bdc27d95e..42f43fa59f24 100644 --- a/Documentation/sparse.txt +++ b/Documentation/sparse.txt @@ -73,10 +73,10 @@ recompiled, or use "make C=2" to run sparse on the files whether they need to be recompiled or not. The latter is a fast way to check the whole tree if you have already built it. -The optional make variable CHECKFLAGS can be used to pass arguments to sparse. -The build system passes -Wbitwise to sparse automatically. To perform -endianness checks, you may define __CHECK_ENDIAN__: +The optional make variable CF can be used to pass arguments to sparse. The +build system passes -Wbitwise to sparse automatically. To perform endianness +checks, you may define __CHECK_ENDIAN__: - make C=2 CHECKFLAGS="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__" + make C=2 CF="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__" These checks are disabled by default as they generate a host of warnings. -- GitLab