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SubjectRe: [PATCH -mm] replacement for broken kbuild-dont-put-temp-files-in-the-source-tree.patch
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> Why not use -o /dev/null, as Daniel Drake already suggested in [1]? In
> both as-instr and ld-option, the tmp file is being deleted
> unconditionally right after its creation anyways.

Because then when the compilation runs as root some as versions
will delete /dev/null on a error. This has happened in the past.

-Andi
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