On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 04:21:49PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
From: Chun-Tse Shao ctshao@google.com
commit d5ea4fece4508bf8e72b659cd22fa4840d8d61e5 upstream.
Add HOSTPKG_CONFIG to allow tooling that builds the kernel to override what pkg-config and parameters are used.
Signed-off-by: Chun-Tse Shao ctshao@google.com Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org [swboyd@chromium.org: Drop certs/Makefile hunk that doesn't apply because pkg-config isn't used there, add dtc/Makefile hunk to fix dtb builds] Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd swboyd@chromium.org
I need this to properly compile 5.15.y stable kernels in the chromeos build system.
Is this a new issue? A regression? This feels odd to add a new build feature to an old kernel when nothing changed to require it other than an external tool suddenly requiring something new?
confused,
greg k-h