Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: remove meaningless KBUILD_ARFLAGS addition

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 14:24:47 +1000 (AEST)

On Sat, 2019-07-13 at 03:21:06 UTC, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> The KBUILD_ARFLAGS addition in arch/powerpc/Makefile has never worked
> in a useful way because it is always overridden by the following code
> in the top Makefile:
> 
>   # use the deterministic mode of AR if available
>   KBUILD_ARFLAGS := $(call ar-option,D)
> 
> The code in the top Makefile was added in 2011, by commit 40df759e2b9e
> ("kbuild: Fix build with binutils <= 2.19").
> 
> The KBUILD_ARFLAGS addition for ppc has always been dead code from the
> beginning.
> 
> Nobody has reported a problem since 43c9127d94d6 ("powerpc: Add option
> to use thin archives"), so this code was unneeded.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email-masked]>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/56347074c5307d7bca5db38eb2c764c64ae57514

cheers