From: Dustin Kirkland Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 20:57:23 +0000 (-0500) Subject: kbuild: documentation change on allowing checkers besides sparse X-Git-Tag: v2.6.18-rc1~192^2 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=701842e3bdd7db09db6af43fc5906ee19b61338d;p=linux-2.6 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 Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg --- diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 935a9d610e..4dcf25d43f 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'