linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] x86/cpufeatures: Automatically generate required and disabled feature masks

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Message-ID: <8973bfd4-d8b2-4dd7-ae1a-3f685dff769f@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:54:50 +0200
From: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@...e.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Xin Li <xin@...or.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
 tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
 x86@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, will@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
 yury.norov@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, acme@...nel.org,
 namhyung@...nel.org, brgerst@...il.com, andrew.cooper3@...rix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] x86/cpufeatures: Automatically generate required
 and disabled feature masks



On 25.02.25 г. 19:49 ч., Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 09:10:01AM -0800, Xin Li wrote:
>> After looking into the build issue, we think it's better to change to perl;
>> GNU awk has quite a few extended features that standard awk doesn't support,
>> e.g., BEGINFILE/FPAT/...
> 
> ... which will make the kernel build depend on yet another tool. I know,
> I know, perl is everywhere but someone would crawl out of the woodwork
> complaining that building the kernel pulls in even more stuff.
> 


But don't we use perl even now:

$ find . -iname *.pl | wc -l
55