From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH kernel v2] powerpc/makefile: Do not redefine $(CPP) for preprocessor
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 05:26:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210512102640.GT10366@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80ae1561-ed8d-cf3a-f3bb-d89cd07bfc24@ozlabs.ru>
On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 01:48:53PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> >Oh! I completely missed those few lines. Sorry for that :-(
>
> Well, I probably should have made it a separate patch anyway, I'll
> repost separately.
Thanks.
> >To compensate a bit:
> >
> >>It still puzzles me why we need -C
> >>(preserve comments in the preprocessor output) flag here.
> >
> >It is so that a human can look at the output and read it. Comments are
> >very significant to human readers :-)
>
> I seriously doubt anyone ever read those :)
I am pretty sure whoever wrote it did!
> I suspect this is to pull
> all the licenses in one place and do some checking but I did not dig deep.
I don't see the point in that, but :-)
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-12 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-11 4:48 [PATCH kernel v2] powerpc/makefile: Do not redefine $(CPP) for preprocessor Alexey Kardashevskiy
2021-05-11 11:20 ` Segher Boessenkool
[not found] ` <1795b9efa40.27bb.1ca38dd7e845b990cd13d431eb58563d@ozlabs.ru>
2021-05-11 23:16 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-05-12 3:48 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2021-05-12 10:26 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2021-05-14 3:10 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-05-11 19:18 ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-05-12 3:52 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
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