Re: [PATCH 3/5] lib/mpi: Fix for building for MIPS32 with Clang

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Mon Aug 12 2019 - 15:45:11 EST


On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 10:40:49PM +0300, Jussi Kivilinna wrote:
> That's quite complicated approach. Fast and easier process would be if you
> just own the patch yourself. Libgcrypt (and target file in libgcrypt)
> is LGPL v2.1+, so the license is compatible with kernel and you are good
> to go with just your own (kernel DCO) signed-off-by.
>
> -Jussi

I have gone this route as another developer pointed out that we can
eliminate all of the inline asm umul_ppmm definitions because the kernel
requires GCC 4.6 and newer and that is completely different from the
libgcrypt patches.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190812193256.55103-1-natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx/

Thanks for weighing in and cheers!
Nathan