Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: get rid of misleading $(AS) from documents

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Sun,  7 Jul 2019 01:25:08 +0900
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The assembler files in the kernel are *.S instead of *.s, so they must
> be preprocessed. Since 'as' of GNU binutils is not able to preprocess,
> we always use $(CC) as an assembler driver.
> 
> $(AS) is almost unused in Kbuild. As of writing, there is just one place
> that directly invokes $(AS).
> 
>   $ git grep -e '$(AS)' -e '${AS}' -e '$AS' -e '$(AS:' -e '${AS:' -- :^Documentation
>   drivers/net/wan/Makefile:  AS68K = $(AS)
> 
> The documentation about *_AFLAGS* sounds like the flags were passed
> to $(AS). This is somewhat misleading.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>

Would you like me to send this up through the docs tree?

Thanks,

jon