linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: Remove '-p' from LDFLAGS

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Date:   Mon, 7 Jan 2019 11:19:04 -0800
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
Cc:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Stefan Agner <stefan@...er.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: Remove '-p' from LDFLAGS

On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 8:34 AM Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
>
> > This option is not supported by lld:
> >
> >     ld.lld: error: unknown argument: -p
> >
> > This has been a no-op in binutils since 2004 (see commit dea514f51da1 in
> > that tree). Given that the lowest officially supported of binutils for
> > the kernel is 2.20, which was released in 2009, nobody needs this flag
> > around so just remove it. Commit 1a381d4a0a9a ("arm64: remove no-op -p
> > linker flag") did the same for arm64.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
> > Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
> > Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>
> > Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@...er.ch>
>
> You may now submit your patch to RMK's patch system:
> http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/

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