Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:46:48 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/raid6: correctly check for assembler capabilities |
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On 02/03/2015 01:03 PM, Paul Bolle wrote: > On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 07:50 +1100, NeilBrown wrote: >> Actually the prefix of this macro is "CONFIG_AS_", not "CONFIG_" :-) >> CONFIG_AS_ is reserved for assembly magic, and is never used by the the >> kconfig system. >> >> (Well..... I might have made bits of that up, but "git grep 'config AS_'" >> doesn't find anything). > > That's correct, there are no Kconfig symbols starting with AS_. But > still, I would like to hear whether there's a reasonable chance I might > convince other people to adopt my peeve. > > The thinking behind that peeve is, basically, that where people > encounter a CONFIG_* macro they should only have to check the .config > file to see how that macro was evaluated in the build that was used. >
There is a hope/intent that eventually the config system will be able to incorporate toolchain dependencies for a bunch of reasons.
-hpa
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