[PATCH] kbuild: remove EXTRA_*FLAGS support

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Wed Feb 05 2025 - 11:40:10 EST


Commit f77bf01425b1 ("kbuild: introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and
ldflags-y") deprecated these in 2007. The migration should have been
completed by now.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 18 ------------------
Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst | 3 ---
scripts/Makefile.build | 4 ----
scripts/Makefile.lib | 5 -----
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 14 --------------
5 files changed, 44 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
index abb3ff682076..76bd0ddb0041 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
@@ -342,24 +342,6 @@ API usage

See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/RCU/whatisRCU.html#full-list-of-rcu-apis

- **DEPRECATED_VARIABLE**
- EXTRA_{A,C,CPP,LD}FLAGS are deprecated and should be replaced by the new
- flags added via commit f77bf01425b1 ("kbuild: introduce ccflags-y,
- asflags-y and ldflags-y").
-
- The following conversion scheme maybe used::
-
- EXTRA_AFLAGS -> asflags-y
- EXTRA_CFLAGS -> ccflags-y
- EXTRA_CPPFLAGS -> cppflags-y
- EXTRA_LDFLAGS -> ldflags-y
-
- See:
-
- 1. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20070930191054.GA15876@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
- 2. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1313384834-24433-12-git-send-email-lacombar@xxxxxxxxx/
- 3. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/kbuild/makefiles.html#compilation-flags
-
**DEVICE_ATTR_FUNCTIONS**
The function names used in DEVICE_ATTR is unusual.
Typically, the store and show functions are used with <attr>_store and
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
index d36519f194dc..25e04e47faff 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
@@ -318,9 +318,6 @@ ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y
These three flags apply only to the kbuild makefile in which they
are assigned. They are used for all the normal cc, as and ld
invocations happening during a recursive build.
- Note: Flags with the same behaviour were previously named:
- EXTRA_CFLAGS, EXTRA_AFLAGS and EXTRA_LDFLAGS.
- They are still supported but their usage is deprecated.

ccflags-y specifies options for compiling with $(CC).

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index 993708d11874..a59650ba140b 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -20,10 +20,6 @@ always-m :=
targets :=
subdir-y :=
subdir-m :=
-EXTRA_AFLAGS :=
-EXTRA_CFLAGS :=
-EXTRA_CPPFLAGS :=
-EXTRA_LDFLAGS :=
asflags-y :=
ccflags-y :=
rustflags-y :=
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index ad55ef201aac..20d77bfd0d72 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -1,9 +1,4 @@
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-# Backward compatibility
-asflags-y += $(EXTRA_AFLAGS)
-ccflags-y += $(EXTRA_CFLAGS)
-cppflags-y += $(EXTRA_CPPFLAGS)
-ldflags-y += $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)

# flags that take effect in current and sub directories
KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(subdir-asflags-y)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 7b28ad331742..8f70bedc18be 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3689,20 +3689,6 @@ sub process {
}
}

- if (($realfile =~ /Makefile.*/ || $realfile =~ /Kbuild.*/) &&
- ($line =~ /\+(EXTRA_[A-Z]+FLAGS).*/)) {
- my $flag = $1;
- my $replacement = {
- 'EXTRA_AFLAGS' => 'asflags-y',
- 'EXTRA_CFLAGS' => 'ccflags-y',
- 'EXTRA_CPPFLAGS' => 'cppflags-y',
- 'EXTRA_LDFLAGS' => 'ldflags-y',
- };
-
- WARN("DEPRECATED_VARIABLE",
- "Use of $flag is deprecated, please use \`$replacement->{$flag} instead.\n" . $herecurr) if ($replacement->{$flag});
- }
-
# check for DT compatible documentation
if (defined $root &&
(($realfile =~ /\.dtsi?$/ && $line =~ /^\+\s*compatible\s*=\s*\"/) ||
--
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