Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] x86: remove always-defined CONFIG_AS_* options

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 6:15 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> arch/x86/Makefile tests instruction code by $(call as-instr, ...)
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> Some of them are very old.
> For example, the check for CONFIG_AS_CFI dates back to 2006.
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> We raise GCC versions from time to time, and we clean old code away.
> The same policy applied to binutils.
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> The current minimal supported version of binutils is 2.21
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> This is new enough to recognize the instruction in most of
> as-instr calls.
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> If this series looks good, how to merge it?
> Via x86 tree or maybe crypto ?

This series looks fine, but why is it still incomplete? That is, it's
missing your drm commit plus the 4 I layered on top for moving to a
Kconfig-based approach and accounting for the bump to binutils 2.23.
Everything is now rebased here:
https://git.zx2c4.com/linux-dev/log/?h=jd/kconfig-assembler-support

Would you be up for resubmitting those all together so we can handle
this in one go?

Jason