linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] Allow ld.lld to link the MIPS VDSO

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Date:   Wed, 29 Apr 2020 20:06:30 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
To:     Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
Cc:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Clang-Built-Linux ML <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Golovin <dima@...ovin.in>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] Allow ld.lld to link the MIPS VDSO

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 09:04:42AM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:14 AM Nathan Chancellor
> <natechancellor@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Patch 1 adds ld.lld support to Kconfig so that we can avoid certain
> > ld.bfd checks.
> >
> 
> Is it possible to introduce and add LD_IS_BFD Kconfig for ld.bfd in this series?
> Most people agreed on this name AFAICS.
> What do people think?
> 
> - Sedat -

What is the use case for LD_IS_BFD right now? I am not sure I see a
reason to add a CONFIG value that won't see any immediate use.

Cheers,
Nathan