kbuild: enable 'make CFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CC

The variable CFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by
kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour.
On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to
pass in additional flags to gcc.

This patch replace use of CFLAGS with KBUILD_CFLAGS all over the
tree and enabling one to use:
make CFLAGS=...
to specify additional gcc commandline options.

One usecase is when trying to find gcc bugs but other
use cases has been requested too.

Patch was tested on following architectures:
alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k

Test was simple to do a defconfig build, apply the patch and check
that nothing got rebuild.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/Kbuild.include b/scripts/Kbuild.include
index 677bc6c175cb..b1a7c7d42e15 100644
--- a/scripts/Kbuild.include
+++ b/scripts/Kbuild.include
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ try-run = $(shell set -e;		\
 # Usage: cflags-y += $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-isa=foo,)
 
 as-option = $(call try-run,\
-        $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(1) -c -xassembler /dev/null -o "$$TMP",$(1),$(2))
+        $(CC) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) $(1) -c -xassembler /dev/null -o "$$TMP",$(1),$(2))
 
 # as-instr
 # Usage: cflags-y += $(call as-instr,instr,option1,option2)
@@ -87,12 +87,12 @@ as-instr = $(call try-run,\
 # Usage: cflags-y += $(call cc-option,-march=winchip-c6,-march=i586)
 
 cc-option = $(call try-run,\
-        $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(1) -S -xc /dev/null -o "$$TMP",$(1),$(2))
+        $(CC) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) $(1) -S -xc /dev/null -o "$$TMP",$(1),$(2))
 
 # cc-option-yn
 # Usage: flag := $(call cc-option-yn,-march=winchip-c6)
 cc-option-yn = $(call try-run,\
-        $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(1) -S -xc /dev/null -o "$$TMP",y,n)
+        $(CC) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) $(1) -S -xc /dev/null -o "$$TMP",y,n)
 
 # cc-option-align
 # Prefix align with either -falign or -malign
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index e6ce7b107e49..51ae412929a0 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ basename_flags = -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR($(call name-fix,$(basetarget)))"
 modname_flags  = $(if $(filter 1,$(words $(modname))),\
                  -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR($(call name-fix,$(modname)))")
 
-_c_flags       = $(CFLAGS) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS_$(basetarget).o)
+_c_flags       = $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS_$(basetarget).o)
 _a_flags       = $(AFLAGS) $(EXTRA_AFLAGS) $(AFLAGS_$(basetarget).o)
 _cpp_flags     = $(CPPFLAGS) $(EXTRA_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS_$(@F))