Re: [SPAM?] Re: [PATCH] mm/pg-r4k.c: Dump the generated code

[Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>]

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> 
>  Though either way I am not sure these would have to be put in Kconfig or 
> Makefile anywhere.  A generic way should be enough for the insistent as 
> the potentially useful options may proliferate; we have the CFLAGS_KERNEL 
> and CFLAGS_MODULE Makefile variables that would suit for setting upon 
> `make' invocation.
> 

In that case very few people would use this optimization.

We could just have one new Kconfig option in kernel hacking submenu:

config EXTRA_CFLAGS
        string
        help
          If you want to pass additionnal option to GCC
          for optimization purpose for example, use this.


                Franck