linux-kernel - [PATCH] Revert "kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option"

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Message-Id: <20220929181223.2502994-1-masahiroy@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 30 Sep 2022 03:12:23 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>, llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option"

This reverts commit d79a27195a33f4b5e591de5536799ad874ea6cf5.

According to the commit description, this ld-option test was added for
the gold linker at that time.

Commit 75959d44f9dc ("kbuild: Fail if gold linker is detected") gave
up the gold linker support after all.

I tested the BFD linker from binutils 2.23 and LLD from LLVM 11.0.0.
Both of them support the -X option.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
---

 Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 49dcae886c48..d7c85ec79000 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1037,7 +1037,7 @@ KBUILD_LDFLAGS	+= $(call ld-option,--no-warn-rwx-segments)
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_STRIP_ASM_SYMS),y)
-LDFLAGS_vmlinux	+= $(call ld-option, -X,)
+LDFLAGS_vmlinux	+= -X
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_RELR),y)
-- 
2.34.1