Re: [PATCH] ia64: minor Makefile simplification through use ofcc-ifversion

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Thu Jul 23 2009 - 17:28:15 EST


On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 08:56:50PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Change was suggested by Sam Ravnborg; see http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/18/15.
> Untested.
>
> diff --git a/arch/ia64/Makefile b/arch/ia64/Makefile
> index 58a7e46..2bf6107 100644
> --- a/arch/ia64/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/ia64/Makefile
> @@ -41,10 +41,8 @@ $(error Sorry, you need a newer version of the assember, one that is built from
> ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/linux-ia64/gas-030124.tar.gz)
> endif
>
> -ifeq ($(call cc-version),0304)
> - cflags-$(CONFIG_ITANIUM) += -mtune=merced
> - cflags-$(CONFIG_MCKINLEY) += -mtune=mckinley
> -endif
> +cflags-$(CONFIG_ITANIUM) += $(call cc-ifversion, -eq, 0304, -mtune=merced)
> +cflags-$(CONFIG_MCKINLEY) += $(call cc-ifversion, -eq, 0304, -mtune=mckinley)

The above change is correct.
But I really wonder if the original code was correct?
Do we really only want to use the -mtune options for this specific gcc version?
If this is indeed the case this deserves a comment explaning this.

So the patch has my:

Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

But the code that this patch highligt (but does not chage) looks questionable.

Sam
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