Re: [PATCH] crypto: arm: workaround for building with old binutils

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Sat Apr 11 2015 - 06:35:41 EST



> On 11 apr. 2015, at 10:55, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 11 April 2015 09:41:08 Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> Could you perhaps put the rules that build these modules inside a
>>
>> ifneq ($(armv8-ce-flags),-DARMV8_CE_DISABLED)
>> ...
>> endif
>
> How about something like this:
>
> ifeq ($(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-mfpu=crypto-neon-fp-armv8),)
> $(warning ARMv8 Crypto Extensions need binutils 2.23 or higher)
> else
> ...
> endif
>
> That would basically be a reimplementation of the missing "as-option-yn"
> macro though, so we could also add that instead and do
>
> ifeq ($(call as-option-yn,-Wa$(comma)-mfpu=crypto-neon-fp-armv8),y)
> $(warning ARMv8 Crypto Extensions need binutils 2.23 or higher)
> else
> ...
> endif
>

Yes, that should work. Could we also move the CE objs to ce-obj-$() and put

ifneq ($(ce-obj-y)$(ce-obj-m),)
if <as check>
obj-y += $(ce-obj-y)
obj-m += $(ce-obj-m)
else
$(warning ...)
endif
endif

around it so you only get the warning if you have selected any of these modules?

In any case, I strongly prefer to leave the .S files themselves alone if at all possible

Ard.

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