linux-kernel - Re: [BUGFIX] Fix AES-NI CTR optimization compiling failure with gas 2.16.1

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Message-Id: <20100312.004202.27822414.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:42:02 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	avi@...hat.com
Cc:	ying.huang@...el.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX] Fix AES-NI CTR optimization compiling failure with
 gas 2.16.1

From: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:37:33 +0200

> Eventually you'll port the entire assembler into macros, as
> instructions are introduced more frequently that people upgrade their
> assemblers.  Maybe we should disable the new features and warn people
> (and distros) to upgrade their tools instead.

I totally and completely disagree.

It would have taken more than a year to get Niagara cpu support out to
people if I had done what you are suggesting.

And here we're talking about one instruction in one specialized case
in a very piece of crypto module assembler.
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