Documentation: kbuild: Improve if_changed documentation

  - These days if_changed is used with many more commands than ld,
    objcopy, and gzip, hence add an ellipsis,
  - Any target that utilises if_changed must be listed in $(targets),
    so it needs an assignment to "targets", not "target".

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index a445e1c8828e1c37a558d9f8cdd9e155bfb639eb..520b2c75bc568ff3d6899334c711c26ed3e97e55 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -1092,7 +1092,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
 
        Usage:
                target: source(s) FORCE
-                       $(call if_changed,ld/objcopy/gzip)
+                       $(call if_changed,ld/objcopy/gzip/...)
 
        When the rule is evaluated, it is checked to see if any files
        need an update, or the command line has changed since the last
@@ -1110,7 +1110,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
        significant; for instance, the below will fail (note the extra space
        after the comma):
                target: source(s) FORCE
-       #WRONG!#        $(call if_changed, ld/objcopy/gzip)
+       #WRONG!#        $(call if_changed, ld/objcopy/gzip/...)
 
     ld
        Link target. Often, LDFLAGS_$@ is used to set specific options to ld.
@@ -1142,7 +1142,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
 
        The ": %: %.o" part of the prerequisite is a shorthand that
        free us from listing the setup.o and bootsect.o files.
-       Note: It is a common mistake to forget the "target :=" assignment,
+       Note: It is a common mistake to forget the "targets :=" assignment,
              resulting in the target file being recompiled for no
              obvious reason.