Re: [PATCH 1/2] scripts/Kconfig.toolchain: Drop compiler symbols from dependencies

[Nathan Chancellor]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2026 at 10:41:17AM +0200, Nicolas Schier wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2026 at 11:54:30PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Hm, does this mean we're running more probes at start-up now compared to
> > before (since the Makefile idef would have suppressed them)?
> 
> Yes, probing compiler flags via Kconfig results in more
> useless probing calls.  That's unfortunate, but the move to Kconfig look
> still reasonable to me due.

Right, we probe in more cases when we have to but the trade off is that
we shouldn't have to in the common case of incremental compiles with the
same toolchain.

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Cheers,
Nathan