From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268899AbUH3UCG (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:02:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268886AbUH3TxZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:53:25 -0400 Received: from ppp-62-11-78-150.dialup.tiscali.it ([62.11.78.150]:7810 "EHLO zion.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268925AbUH3Twm (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:52:42 -0400 Subject: [patch 2/3] kbuild - remove old LDFLAGS_BLOB from Makefiles - docco update To: akpm@osdl.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it From: blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:44:32 +0200 Message-Id: <20040830194432.85FC1529B@zion.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The LDFLAGS_BLOB var (which used to be defined in arch Makefiles) is now unused, as specified inside usr/initramfs_data.S. So this patch updates the docs to mark it as unused. You may prefer to drop the entire section about it, however I wanted to make clear that this is a change from previous doc versions. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso --- vanilla-linux-2.6.8.1-paolo/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff -puN Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt~doc-kbuild-LDFLAGS_BLOB-unused Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt --- vanilla-linux-2.6.8.1/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt~doc-kbuild-LDFLAGS_BLOB-unused 2004-08-30 16:02:33.080247296 +0200 +++ vanilla-linux-2.6.8.1-paolo/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt 2004-08-30 16:02:33.082246992 +0200 @@ -647,6 +647,10 @@ When kbuild executes the following steps #arch/i386/Makefile LDFLAGS_BLOB := --format binary --oformat elf32-i386 + Note that this flag has now (at least since 2.6.4) been REMOVED, since + a different mechanism is used (see comments at the beginning of + usr/initramfs_data.S). + OBJCOPYFLAGS objcopy flags When $(call if_changed,objcopy) is used to translate a .o file, _