In old days, the "host-progs" syntax was used for specifying host programs. It was renamed to the current "hostprogs-y" in 2004. It is typically useful in scripts/Makefile because it allows Kbuild to selectively compile host programs based on the kernel configuration. This commit renames like follows: always -> always-y hostprogs-y -> hostprogs So, scripts/Makefile will look like this: always-$(CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C) += ... always-$(CONFIG_KALLSYMS) += ... ... hostprogs := $(always-y) $(always-m) I think this makes more sense because a host program is always a host program, irrespective of the kernel configuration. We want to specify which ones to compile by CONFIG options, so always-y will be handier. The "always", "hostprogs-y", "hostprogs-m" will be kept for backward compatibility for a while.
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| 1 | 1 | # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 |
| 2 | 2 | OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD := y |
| 3 | 3 | |
| 4 | −hostprogs-y := modpost mk_elfconfig | |
| 5 | −always := $(hostprogs-y) empty.o | |
| 4 | +hostprogs := modpost mk_elfconfig | |
| 5 | +always-y := $(hostprogs) empty.o | |
| 6 | 6 | |
| 7 | 7 | modpost-objs := modpost.o file2alias.o sumversion.o |
| 8 | 8 | |