Re: [PATCH] x86/asm: Provide a Kconfig symbol for disabling old assembly annotations

From: Will Deacon
Date: Thu Apr 30 2020 - 12:42:33 EST


On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 07:24:02PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> As x86 was converted to use the modern SYM_ annotations for assembly ifdefs
> were added to remove the generic definitions of the old style annotations
> on x86. Rather than collect a list of architectures in the ifdefs as more
> architectures are converted over provide a Kconfig symbol for this and
> update x86 to use it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> arm64 will all being well be able to use this shortly.

Just for the record (already discussed with Boris off-list), I'm going to
queue this in the arm64 tree by pulling the x86/asm branch from -tip.

Thanks,

Will