Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Updates for 7.2

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:55:47 +0200
Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That would be one entry to handle all the weird/unique use cases. I
> personally do not rely often enough on trace_printk.h to wish for a
> dedicated Kconfig entry just for that, but a CONFIG_CUSTOM_CFLAGS would
> cover some of my use cases while also solving your problem.

It's not enough for CFLAGS as that gets passed to various aspects of
the kernel build that is not appropriate. Unless CUSTOM_CFLAGS was only
added to CFLAGS_KERNEL and CFLAGS_MODULES.

> 
> Yes, all of these can be passed on the command line, but that would be a
> quality of live improvement to have the config remember these for us.
> 

As I only build the kernel via ktest.pl scripts, it only required me to
update my ktest config and it's a "set and forget" ordeal for me.

-- Steve