Re: [PATCH 3/3] kbuild: remove AS variable

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Tue Mar 24 2020 - 15:43:41 EST


On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 01:15:39AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> As commit 5ef872636ca7 ("kbuild: get rid of misleading $(AS) from
> documents") noted, we rarely use $(AS) in the kernel build.
>
> Now that the only/last user of $(AS) in drivers/net/wan/Makefile was
> converted to $(CC), $(AS) is no longer used in the build process.
>
> You can still pass in AS=clang, which is just a switch to turn on
> the LLVM integrated assembler.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>