diff --git a/include/ChangeLog b/include/ChangeLog
index e4b1a2dc5..d83ca9cdb 100644
--- a/include/ChangeLog
+++ b/include/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-10-24  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
+
+	* bfdlink.h (bfd_link_info): Add
+	disable_target_specific_optimizations.
+
 2012-10-23  Nathan Sidwell  <nathan@codesourcery.com>
 
 	* bfdlink.h (struct bfd_link_info): Add stacksize option.
diff --git a/include/bfdlink.h b/include/bfdlink.h
index 3ff1c9284..bf44dee82 100644
--- a/include/bfdlink.h
+++ b/include/bfdlink.h
@@ -420,6 +420,24 @@ struct bfd_link_info
      means explicitly zero-sized.  */
   bfd_signed_vma stacksize;
 
+  /* Enable or disable target specific optimizations.
+
+     Not all targets have optimizations to enable.
+
+     Normally these optimizations are disabled by default but some targets
+     prefer to enable them by default.  So this field is a tri-state variable.
+     The values are:
+     
+     zero: Enable the optimizations (either from --relax being specified on
+       the command line or the backend's before_allocation emulation function.
+       
+     positive: The user has requested that these optimizations be disabled.
+       (Via the --no-relax command line option).
+
+     negative: The optimizations are disabled.  (Set when initializing the
+       args_type structure in ldmain.c:main.  */
+  signed int disable_target_specific_optimizations;
+
   /* Function callbacks.  */
   const struct bfd_link_callbacks *callbacks;