kbuild: documentation change on allowing checkers besides sparse

Minor documentation change on allowing checkers besides sparse

This patch cleans up a couple of mentions of sparse in the inline
toplevel Makefile documentation such that it's clear that other checkers
besides sparse can override CHECK and CHECKFLAGS.

Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 935a9d6..4dcf25d 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -41,8 +41,9 @@ ifndef KBUILD_VERBOSE
   KBUILD_VERBOSE = 0
 endif
 
-# Call sparse as part of compilation of C files
-# Use 'make C=1' to enable sparse checking
+# Call checker as part of compilation of C files
+# Use 'make C=1' to enable checking (sparse, by default)
+# Override with 'make C=1 CHECK=checker_executable CHECKFLAGS=....'
 
 ifdef C
   ifeq ("$(origin C)", "command line")
@@ -1060,8 +1061,8 @@ help:
 
        @echo  '  make V=0|1 [targets] 0 => quiet build (default), 1 => verbose build'
        @echo  '  make O=dir [targets] Locate all output files in "dir", including .config'
-       @echo  '  make C=1   [targets] Check all c source with $$CHECK (sparse)'
-       @echo  '  make C=2   [targets] Force check of all c source with $$CHECK (sparse)'
+       @echo  '  make C=1   [targets] Check all c source with $$CHECK (sparse by default)'
+       @echo  '  make C=2   [targets] Force check of all c source with $$CHECK'
        @echo  ''
        @echo  'Execute "make" or "make all" to build all targets marked with [*] '
        @echo  'For further info see the ./README file'