linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix pre-2.40 binutils assembler error

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Message-ID: <20251006112105.3fb129f6@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 11:21:05 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>, Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
 Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>, Mark Bloch <mbloch@...dia.com>, Andrew
 Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric
 Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Patrisious
 Haddad <phaddad@...dia.com>, Moshe Shemesh <moshe@...dia.com>, Michael
 Guralnik <michaelgur@...dia.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Naresh
 Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
 Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@...dia.com>, Yishai
 Hadas <yishaih@...dia.com>, Maor Gottlieb <maorg@...dia.com>,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix pre-2.40 binutils assembler error

On Mon,  6 Oct 2025 13:56:34 +0200 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 
> Old binutils versions require a slightly stricter syntax for the .arch_extension
> directive and fail with the extra semicolon:
> 
> /tmp/cclfMnj9.s:656: Error: unknown architectural extension `simd;'
> 
> Drop the semicolon to make it work with all supported toolchain version.

Saeed, could you ack? I think we should get this merged quickly since
it's a build fix.