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 <yamada.masah...@socionext.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/56347074c5307d7bca5db38eb2c764c64ae57514
cheers
