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Linus Torvalds f7b44cb7e7 Unbreak 'make tools/*' for user-space targets 
[ Upstream commit ee916dccd4 ]

This pattern isn't very documented, and apparently not used much outside
of 'make tools/help', but it has existed for over a decade (since commit
ea01fa9f63: "tools: Connect to the kernel build system").

However, it doesn't work very well for most cases, particularly the
useful "tools/all" target, because it overrides the LDFLAGS value with
an empty one.

And once overridden, 'make' will then not honor the tooling makefiles
trying to change it - which then makes any LDFLAGS use in the tooling
directory break, typically causing odd link errors.

Remove that LDFLAGS override, since it seems to be entirely historical.
The core kernel makefiles no longer modify LDFLAGS as part of the build,
and use kernel-specific link flags instead (eg 'KBUILD_LDFLAGS' and
friends).

This allows more of the 'make tools/*' cases to work.  I say 'more',
because some of the tooling build rules make various other assumptions
or have other issues, so it's still a bit hit-or-miss.  But those issues
tend to show up with the 'make -C tools xyz' pattern too, so now it's no
longer an issue of this particular 'tools/*' build rule being special.

Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2025-10-29 14:10:18 +01:00
arch s390/mm: Use __GFP_ACCOUNT for user page table allocations 2025-10-29 14:10:17 +01:00
block block: Remove elevator_lock usage from blkg_conf frozen operations 2025-10-23 16:24:37 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption 2025-10-19 16:37:14 +02:00
Documentation arm64: errata: Apply workarounds for Neoverse-V3AE 2025-10-23 16:24:38 +02:00
drivers drivers/perf: hisi: Relax the event ID check in the framework 2025-10-29 14:10:17 +01:00
fs smb: server: let smb_direct_flush_send_list() invalidate a remote key first 2025-10-29 14:10:17 +01:00
include cgroup/misc: fix misc_res_type kernel-doc warning 2025-10-29 14:10:15 +01:00
init init: handle bootloader identifier in kernel parameters 2025-10-19 16:37:27 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: protect mem region deregistration 2025-10-23 16:24:22 +02:00
ipc vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare 2025-07-28 13:43:25 -07:00
kernel sched/fair: Block delayed tasks on throttled hierarchy during dequeue 2025-10-29 14:10:15 +01:00
lib lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get() 2025-10-19 16:37:28 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm slab: reset slab->obj_ext when freeing and it is OBJEXTS_ALLOC_FAIL 2025-10-23 16:24:21 +02:00
net tls: don't rely on tx_work during send() 2025-10-23 16:24:31 +02:00
rust rust: cpufreq: fix formatting 2025-10-23 16:24:38 +02:00
samples 15 hotfixes. 11 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues 2025-09-17 21:34:26 -07:00
scripts kbuild: Add '.rel.*' strip pattern for vmlinux 2025-10-19 16:37:15 +02:00
security KEYS: trusted_tpm1: Compare HMAC values in constant time 2025-10-19 16:37:28 +02:00
sound ASoC: amd/sdw_utils: avoid NULL deref when devm_kasprintf() fails 2025-10-23 16:24:37 +02:00
tools selftests: arg_parsing: Ensure data is flushed to disk before reading. 2025-10-23 16:24:37 +02:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge tag 'kvm-x86-no_assignment-6.17' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD 2025-07-29 08:36:42 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore gitignore: allow .pylintrc to be tracked 2025-07-02 17:10:04 -06:00
.mailmap 7 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues or 2025-09-28 09:32:00 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: retire Boris from TLS maintainers 2025-08-26 17:36:01 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS i2c-for-6.17-rc8 2025-09-28 13:19:23 -07:00
Makefile Unbreak 'make tools/*' for user-space targets 2025-10-29 14:10:18 +01:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.