Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757331AbbFPUnV (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:43:21 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34667 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752728AbbFPUnO (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:43:14 -0400 Message-ID: <55808A4F.3070202@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:42:55 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Bolle CC: NeilBrown , Jan Beulich , Valentin Rothberg , mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/raid6: correctly check for assembler capabilities References: <54C2148E02000078000588FB@mail.emea.novell.com> <1422995490.23894.32.camel@x220> <20150204075033.25fb2317@notabene.brown> <1422997415.23894.44.camel@x220> <55807D28.7090702@zytor.com> <1434484619.2069.72.camel@x220> <5580819F.1080802@zytor.com> <1434487034.2069.86.camel@x220> In-Reply-To: <1434487034.2069.86.camel@x220> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 721 Lines: 24 On 06/16/2015 01:37 PM, Paul Bolle wrote: > > I have no idea what AS_AVX2 means, sorry. So what would it mean if > someone has a .config with > CONFIG_AS_AVX2=foo > > Ie, what would happen if someone using a toolchain for which that would > not be possible tries to build a kernel with that symbol set? That > person's .config would end up containing > # CONFIG_AS_AVX2 is not set > > or similar, right? > Yes, these would be generated, not user input. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/