Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] kbuild: rename KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS to KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Tue Sep 03 2019 - 01:37:44 EST


On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 01:25:55AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS started as a switch to add extra warning
> options for GCC, but now it is a historical misnomer since we use it
> also for Clang, DTC, and even kernel-doc.
>
> Rename it to more sensible, and shorter KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN.
>
> For the backward compatibility, KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS is still
> supported (but not advertised in the documentation).
>
> I also fixed up 'make help', and updated the documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>