Merge tag 'kbuild-fixes-v5.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild fixes from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Restore the original behavior of scripts/setlocalversion when
   LOCALVERSION is set to empty.

 - Show Kconfig prompts even for 'make -s'

 - Fix the combination of COFNIG_LTO_CLANG=y and CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
   for older GNU Make versions

* tag 'kbuild-fixes-v5.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  Documentation: Fix intiramfs script name
  Kbuild: lto: fix module versionings mismatch in GNU make 3.X
  kbuild: do not suppress Kconfig prompts for silent build
  scripts/setlocalversion: fix a bug when LOCALVERSION is empty

Author: torvalds

Documentation/driver-api/early-userspace/early_userspace_support.rst

@@ -69,17 +69,17 @@ early userspace image can be built by an unprivileged user.
 
 As a technical note, when directories and files are specified, the
 entire CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE is passed to
-usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh.  This means that CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE
+usr/gen_initramfs.sh.  This means that CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE
 can really be interpreted as any legal argument to
-gen_initramfs_list.sh.  If a directory is specified as an argument then
+gen_initramfs.sh.  If a directory is specified as an argument then
 the contents are scanned, uid/gid translation is performed, and
 usr/gen_init_cpio file directives are output.  If a directory is
-specified as an argument to usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh then the
+specified as an argument to usr/gen_initramfs.sh then the
 contents of the file are simply copied to the output.  All of the output
 directives from directory scanning and file contents copying are
 processed by usr/gen_init_cpio.
 
-See also 'usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh -h'.
+See also 'usr/gen_initramfs.sh -h'.
 
 Where's this all leading?
 =========================

Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.rst

@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ Documentation/driver-api/early-userspace/early_userspace_support.rst for more de
 The kernel does not depend on external cpio tools.  If you specify a
 directory instead of a configuration file, the kernel's build infrastructure
 creates a configuration file from that directory (usr/Makefile calls
-usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh), and proceeds to package up that directory
+usr/gen_initramfs.sh), and proceeds to package up that directory
 using the config file (by feeding it to usr/gen_init_cpio, which is created
 from usr/gen_init_cpio.c).  The kernel's build-time cpio creation code is
 entirely self-contained, and the kernel's boot-time extractor is also

Makefile

@@ -728,11 +728,12 @@ $(KCONFIG_CONFIG):
 # This exploits the 'multi-target pattern rule' trick.
 # The syncconfig should be executed only once to make all the targets.
 # (Note: use the grouped target '&:' when we bump to GNU Make 4.3)
-quiet_cmd_syncconfig = SYNC    $@
-      cmd_syncconfig = $(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/Makefile syncconfig
-
+#
+# Do not use $(call cmd,...) here. That would suppress prompts from syncconfig,
+# so you cannot notice that Kconfig is waiting for the user input.
 %/config/auto.conf %/config/auto.conf.cmd %/generated/autoconf.h: $(KCONFIG_CONFIG)
-	+$(call cmd,syncconfig)
+	$(Q)$(kecho) "  SYNC    $@"
+	$(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/Makefile syncconfig
 else # !may-sync-config
 # External modules and some install targets need include/generated/autoconf.h
 # and include/config/auto.conf but do not care if they are up-to-date.

scripts/Makefile.build

@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_LTO_CLANG) $(CONFIG_MODVERSIONS),y y)
       cmd_update_lto_symversions =					\
 	rm -f [email protected]						\
 	$(foreach n, $(filter-out FORCE,$^),				\
-		$(if $(wildcard $(n).symversions),			\
+		$(if $(shell test -s $(n).symversions && echo y),	\
 			; cat $(n).symversions >> [email protected]))
 else
       cmd_update_lto_symversions = echo >/dev/null

scripts/setlocalversion

@@ -131,11 +131,14 @@ res="${res}${CONFIG_LOCALVERSION}${LOCALVERSION}"
 if test "$CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO" = "y"; then
 	# full scm version string
 	res="$res$(scm_version)"
-elif [ -z "${LOCALVERSION}" ]; then
-	# append a plus sign if the repository is not in a clean
-	# annotated or signed tagged state (as git describe only
-	# looks at signed or annotated tags - git tag -a/-s) and
-	# LOCALVERSION= is not specified
+elif [ "${LOCALVERSION+set}" != "set" ]; then
+	# If the variable LOCALVERSION is not set, append a plus
+	# sign if the repository is not in a clean annotated or
+	# signed tagged state (as git describe only looks at signed
+	# or annotated tags - git tag -a/-s).
+	#
+	# If the variable LOCALVERSION is set (including being set
+	# to an empty string), we don't want to append a plus sign.
 	scm=$(scm_version --short)
 	res="$res${scm:++}"
 fi