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

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Message-ID: <8581b3a1-0460-452e-88ce-d4d9791beae1@nvidia.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 20:12:53 +0300
From: Patrisious Haddad <phaddad@...dia.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 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>, 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

Thanks Arnd

On 10/6/2025 9:21 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
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> 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.
Reviewed-by: Patrisious Haddad <phaddad@...dia.com>
> Saeed, could you ack? I think we should get this merged quickly since
> it's a build fix.

If my ack is enough you can merge, was planning to send this fix myself.

Thanks,
Patrisious.