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authorDustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@us.ibm.com>2006-05-23 15:57:23 -0500
committerSam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org>2006-07-01 17:08:33 +0200
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kbuild: documentation change on allowing checkers besides sparse
Minor documentation change on allowing checkers besides sparse This patch cleans up a couple of mentions of sparse in the inline toplevel Makefile documentation such that it's clear that other checkers besides sparse can override CHECK and CHECKFLAGS. Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Makefile')
-rw-r--r--Makefile9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 935a9d6..4dcf25d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -41,8 +41,9 @@ ifndef KBUILD_VERBOSE
KBUILD_VERBOSE = 0
endif
-# Call sparse as part of compilation of C files
-# Use 'make C=1' to enable sparse checking
+# Call checker as part of compilation of C files
+# Use 'make C=1' to enable checking (sparse, by default)
+# Override with 'make C=1 CHECK=checker_executable CHECKFLAGS=....'
ifdef C
ifeq ("$(origin C)", "command line")
@@ -1060,8 +1061,8 @@ help:
@echo ' make V=0|1 [targets] 0 => quiet build (default), 1 => verbose build'
@echo ' make O=dir [targets] Locate all output files in "dir", including .config'
- @echo ' make C=1 [targets] Check all c source with $$CHECK (sparse)'
- @echo ' make C=2 [targets] Force check of all c source with $$CHECK (sparse)'
+ @echo ' make C=1 [targets] Check all c source with $$CHECK (sparse by default)'
+ @echo ' make C=2 [targets] Force check of all c source with $$CHECK'
@echo ''
@echo 'Execute "make" or "make all" to build all targets marked with [*] '
@echo 'For further info see the ./README file'