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 40df759e2b
("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 43c9127d94 ("powerpc: Add option
to use thin archives"), so this code was unneeded.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190713032106.8509-1-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
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