linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts: remove obsolete gcc-ld script

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Message-ID: <CAK7LNAT918p5v0Ak8p3a3yQKk7tYUphv=h8p9xkXa411iY_EjA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 27 Aug 2022 23:07:06 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: remove obsolete gcc-ld script

On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 2:20 AM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> + Jiri in case this needs to be carried downstream.
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 2:15 AM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > Since commit 8564ed2b3888 ("Kbuild, lto: Add a gcc-ld script to let run gcc
> > as ld") in 2014, there was not specific work on this the gcc-ld script
> > other than treewide clean-ups.
> >
> > There are no users within the kernel tree, and probably no out-of-tree
> > users either, and there is no dedicated maintainer in MAINTAINERS.
> >
> > Delete this obsolete gcc-ld script.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
>
> No callers in-tree; happy to bring it back though should there later
> be. Thanks for the patch.
>
> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
>
> > ---
> > If there are no objections, I would like to get this patch included
> > through the kbuild tree.
> >
> > Masahiro-san, please pick this patch.
> >
> >  scripts/gcc-ld | 30 ------------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 30 deletions(-)
> >  delete mode 100755 scripts/gcc-ld
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/gcc-ld b/scripts/gcc-ld
> > deleted file mode 100755
> > index 997b818c3962..000000000000
> > --- a/scripts/gcc-ld
> > +++ /dev/null
> > @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
> > -#!/bin/sh
> > -# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > -# run gcc with ld options
> > -# used as a wrapper to execute link time optimizations
> > -# yes virginia, this is not pretty
> > -
> > -ARGS="-nostdlib"
> > -
> > -while [ "$1" != "" ] ; do
> > -       case "$1" in
> > -       -save-temps|-m32|-m64) N="$1" ;;
> > -       -r) N="$1" ;;
> > -       -[Wg]*) N="$1" ;;
> > -       -[olv]|-[Ofd]*|-nostdlib) N="$1" ;;
> > -       --end-group|--start-group)
> > -                N="-Wl,$1" ;;
> > -       -[RTFGhIezcbyYu]*|\
> > ---script|--defsym|-init|-Map|--oformat|-rpath|\
> > --rpath-link|--sort-section|--section-start|-Tbss|-Tdata|-Ttext|\
> > ---version-script|--dynamic-list|--version-exports-symbol|--wrap|-m)
> > -               A="$1" ; shift ; N="-Wl,$A,$1" ;;
> > -       -[m]*) N="$1" ;;
> > -       -*) N="-Wl,$1" ;;
> > -       *)  N="$1" ;;
> > -       esac
> > -       ARGS="$ARGS $N"
> > -       shift
> > -done
> > -
> > -exec $CC $ARGS
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> ~Nick Desaulniers




Applied to linux-kbuild.
Thanks.


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada