[PATCH] kbuild: warn if always, hostprogs-y, or hostprogs-m is used

Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-27T16:04:28Z

always, hostprogs-y, and hostprogs-m are deprecated.

There is no user in upstream code, but I am keeping them for external
modules. I want to remove them entirely someday. Notify the deprecation
to downstream users.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
---

scripts/Makefile.lib | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index cd52a8c6428f..f869a4b2646c 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -4,8 +4,14 @@ asflags-y += $(EXTRA_AFLAGS)
ccflags-y += $(EXTRA_CFLAGS)
cppflags-y += $(EXTRA_CPPFLAGS)
ldflags-y += $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)
+ifneq ($(always),)
+$(warning 'always' is deprecated. Please use 'always-y' instead)
always-y += $(always)
+endif
+ifneq ($(hostprogs-y)$(hostprogs-m),)
+$(warning 'hostprogs-y' and 'hostprogs-m' are deprecated. Please use 'hostprogs' instead)
hostprogs += $(hostprogs-y) $(hostprogs-m)
+endif

# flags that take effect in current and sub directories
KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(subdir-asflags-y)
--
2.25.1