Re: [GIT PULL] x86 cleanups for v5.7

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Apr 03 2020 - 13:03:44 EST


On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 6:47 AM Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> FWIW, I am routinely using Joerg's
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> https://github.com/joergroedel/asmtool
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> for exactly this.

Ahh, that seems to be on *.s files only.

I really prefer working on the object file basis, so that I can do a
diff of the whole kernel if required, and (if I care about just one
file) so that it shows the real code rather than all the odd section
stuff we end up having for alternatives etc.

Linus