[PATCH] scripts: headers_install.sh: Normalize __ASSEMBLY__ to __ASSEMBLER__

From: Thomas Huth

Date: Mon Jul 20 2026 - 06:18:50 EST


From: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>

A previous patch to headers_install.sh normalized the usage of
__ASSEMBLER__ to __ASSEMBLY__ in the UAPI headers due to the
assumption that older versions of GCC might not define __ASSEMBLER__
automatically and thus using __ASSEMBLER__ in the UAPI headers might
break compilation with very old versions of GCC. However, as we now
reassured, even GCC 2.95 still defines __ASSEMBLER__ automatically
(and even older versions are hopefully not in use with the current
Linux UAPI headers anymore).
__ASSEMBLER__ is also set automatically by other C compilers like PCC
(see https://github.com/IanHarvey/pcc/blob/cvs2git/2018.09.20/cc/cc/cc.1#L405)
and Tiny-C (see https://repo.or.cz/tinycc.git/commitdiff/a25325e9be13e52a),
so using __ASSEMBLER__ in UAPI header files should really be fine.

Thus let's head forwards and standardize on __ASSEMBLER__ instead
of __ASSEMBLY__ in the UAPI header files now.

Suggested-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2030a963-33bc-43fe-9a2b-9c626d7d8360@xxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Based-on: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260630-uapi-assembly-v2-1-8e7bee2fe816@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

To avoid the churn, feel free to squash this patch with
Thomas Weißschuh's original patch as long as it has not been
merged to Linus' tree yet.

scripts/headers_install.sh | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/headers_install.sh b/scripts/headers_install.sh
index 83e4475968781..2f1d1767ca267 100755
--- a/scripts/headers_install.sh
+++ b/scripts/headers_install.sh
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ sed -E -e '
s/(^|[^a-zA-Z0-9])__packed([^a-zA-Z0-9_]|$)/\1__attribute__((packed))\2/g
s/(^|[[:space:](])(inline|asm|volatile)([[:space:](]|$)/\1__\2__\3/g
s@#(ifndef|define|endif[[:space:]]*/[*])[[:space:]]*_UAPI@#\1 @
- s/__ASSEMBLER__/__ASSEMBLY__/g
+ s/__ASSEMBLY__/__ASSEMBLER__/g
' $INFILE > $TMPFILE || exit 1

scripts/unifdef -U__KERNEL__ -D__EXPORTED_HEADERS__ $TMPFILE > $OUTFILE
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