Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] x86/cpufeatures: Automatically generate required and disabled feature masks

[Nikolay Borisov]

On 25.02.25 г. 19:49 ч., Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 09:10:01AM -0800, Xin Li wrote:
> > After looking into the build issue, we think it's better to change to perl;
> > GNU awk has quite a few extended features that standard awk doesn't support,
> > e.g., BEGINFILE/FPAT/...
>
> ... which will make the kernel build depend on yet another tool. I know,
> I know, perl is everywhere but someone would crawl out of the woodwork
> complaining that building the kernel pulls in even more stuff.


But don't we use perl even now:

$ find . -iname *.pl | wc -l
55