Re: [GIT PULL] x86/entry for 7.0-rc1
From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Feb 11 2026 - 12:40:31 EST
On 2026-02-11 09:05, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> I often actually look at the build results. Not the object files, no.
> But I do things like
>
> make xyz/file.s
>
> *ALL* the time when developing, and I just don't want to have to treat
> the "this was what I just generated" and "this was what I generated it
> from" as something very different.
>
> Admittedly, these days I don't do much actual development, so I guess
> I wouldn't care.
>
> Which reminds me that I need to go back to merging...
>
Oh, I do too. And so I do make in the build directory, or tack on the O=
option. FAR more annoying to me is that kbuild requires you to do the make
command in the root directory of the tree.
"make -C ../../../../.. arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/sigreturn.o" is not really
much better than
"make -C ../../../../.. O=o/x86_64.cf arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/sigreturn.o"
Come to think of it, I really should just wrap that up in a script...
If anyone is interested, my scripts are sitting at:
git://git.zytor.com/linux/ktest.git
-hpa