kbuild: allow assignment to {A,C,LD}FLAGS_MODULE on the command line

[GitHub/mt8127/android_kernel_alcatel_ttab.git] / Documentation / kbuild / kbuild.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
index 6f8c1cabbc5d1fefe2a18d3c77354b54426d3363..d9c655433ec64d50f2437ce00327cd29abf102bf 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
@@ -22,11 +22,23 @@ building C files and assembler files.
 
 KAFLAGS
 --------------------------------------------------
-Additional options to the assembler.
+Additional options to the assembler (for built-in and modules).
+
+AFLAGS_MODULE
+--------------------------------------------------
+Addtional module specific options to use for $(AS).
 
 KCFLAGS
 --------------------------------------------------
-Additional options to the C compiler.
+Additional options to the C compiler (for built-in and modules).
+
+CFLAGS_MODULE
+--------------------------------------------------
+Addtional module specific options to use for $(CC).
+
+LDFLAGS_MODULE
+--------------------------------------------------
+Additional options used for $(LD) when linking modules.
 
 KBUILD_VERBOSE
 --------------------------------------------------
@@ -65,7 +77,7 @@ CROSS_COMPILE
 Specify an optional fixed part of the binutils filename.
 CROSS_COMPILE can be a part of the filename or the full path.
 
-CROSS_COMPILE is also used for ccache is some setups.
+CROSS_COMPILE is also used for ccache in some setups.
 
 CF
 --------------------------------------------------
@@ -162,3 +174,7 @@ For tags/TAGS/cscope targets, you can specify more than one arch
 to be included in the databases, separated by blank space. E.g.:
 
     $ make ALLSOURCE_ARCHS="x86 mips arm" tags
+
+To get all available archs you can also specify all. E.g.:
+
+    $ make ALLSOURCE_ARCHS=all tags