Re: [PATCH] scripts: headers_install.sh: Normalize __ASSEMBLY__ to __ASSEMBLER__

From: Thomas Weißschuh

Date: Tue Mar 24 2026 - 13:19:27 EST


Hi Nathan,

sorry for the late response, this seems to have fallen through the
cracks.

On 2026-03-13 16:56:18-0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2026 at 04:58:11PM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > There is an ongoing effort to replace the usage of __ASSEMBLER__ with
> > __ASSEMBLY__ throughout the kernel tree, see for example
>
> I think __ASSEMBLER__ and __ASSEMBLY__ are swapped here?

Indeed.

(Also all the other cases)

(...)

> > automatically. So this migration may brake users.
>
> It sounds like the "< GCC 3.0" part of that might not be true based on
> Maciej's research?
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/alpine.DEB.2.21.2603101412520.63708@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Yes, indeed. In my opinion the consistency aspect is still sufficient
to have this change. What do you think?

(...)


Thomas