linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/16] x86: probe assembler capabilities via kconfig instead of makefile

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Message-ID: <CAHmME9pV93Zey2=XghxzThTHbZarFrnxwnGatXHyQjevPf7R=g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Mar 2020 11:17:02 -0600
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "open list:HARDWARE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR CORE" 
        <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/16] x86: probe assembler capabilities via kconfig
 instead of makefile

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:01 AM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> Can 11 just be rebased with 8 dropped?

8 adds comments to one place. 11 moves them to another place, while
doing other things.

Your desire is to skip the first step? I guess there's no problem with
this, but I'm curious to learn why.