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kbuild: documentation change on allowing checkers besides sparse
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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>
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Dustin Kirkland authored and Sam Ravnborg committed Jul 1, 2006
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Expand Up @@ -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")
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@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'
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