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authorDustin Kirkland2006-05-23 15:57:23 -0500
committerSam Ravnborg2006-07-01 10:08:33 -0500
commit701842e3bdd7db09db6af43fc5906ee19b61338d (patch)
treef76445c893876eb3b1c83eb3f24d83bb3bf2a72f /Makefile
parentc96fca213737a5b4bc569e1d9a0ef6adeff661e9 (diff)
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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 935a9d610e6..4dcf25d43fa 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -41,8 +41,9 @@ ifndef KBUILD_VERBOSE
41 KBUILD_VERBOSE = 0 41 KBUILD_VERBOSE = 0
42endif 42endif
43 43
44# Call sparse as part of compilation of C files 44# Call checker as part of compilation of C files
45# Use 'make C=1' to enable sparse checking 45# Use 'make C=1' to enable checking (sparse, by default)
46# Override with 'make C=1 CHECK=checker_executable CHECKFLAGS=....'
46 47
47ifdef C 48ifdef C
48 ifeq ("$(origin C)", "command line") 49 ifeq ("$(origin C)", "command line")
@@ -1060,8 +1061,8 @@ help:
1060 1061
1061 @echo ' make V=0|1 [targets] 0 => quiet build (default), 1 => verbose build' 1062 @echo ' make V=0|1 [targets] 0 => quiet build (default), 1 => verbose build'
1062 @echo ' make O=dir [targets] Locate all output files in "dir", including .config' 1063 @echo ' make O=dir [targets] Locate all output files in "dir", including .config'
1063 @echo ' make C=1 [targets] Check all c source with $$CHECK (sparse)' 1064 @echo ' make C=1 [targets] Check all c source with $$CHECK (sparse by default)'
1064 @echo ' make C=2 [targets] Force check of all c source with $$CHECK (sparse)' 1065 @echo ' make C=2 [targets] Force check of all c source with $$CHECK'
1065 @echo '' 1066 @echo ''
1066 @echo 'Execute "make" or "make all" to build all targets marked with [*] ' 1067 @echo 'Execute "make" or "make all" to build all targets marked with [*] '
1067 @echo 'For further info see the ./README file' 1068 @echo 'For further info see the ./README file'