linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] kbuild: remove AS variable

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Message-ID: <20200324194336.GA15310@ubuntu-m2-xlarge-x86>
Date:   Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:43:36 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] kbuild: remove AS variable

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 01:15:39AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> As commit 5ef872636ca7 ("kbuild: get rid of misleading $(AS) from
> documents") noted, we rarely use $(AS) in the kernel build.
> 
> Now that the only/last user of $(AS) in drivers/net/wan/Makefile was
> converted to $(CC), $(AS) is no longer used in the build process.
> 
> You can still pass in AS=clang, which is just a switch to turn on
> the LLVM integrated assembler.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>