Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: consolidate redundant sed script ASM offset generation

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El Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 02:50:02PM +0900 Masahiro Yamada ha dit:

> This part ended up in redundant code after touched by multiple
> people.
> 
> [1] Commit 3234282f33b2 ("x86, asm: Fix CFI macro invocations to
> deal with shortcomings in gas") added parentheses for defined
> expressions to support old gas for x86.
> 
> [2] Commit a22dcdb0032c ("x86, asm: Fix ancient-GAS workaround")
> split the pattern into two to avoid parentheses for non-numeric
> expressions.
> 
> [3] Commit 95a2f6f72d37 ("Partially revert patch that encloses
> asm-offset.h numbers in brackets") removed parentheses from numeric
> expressions as well because parentheses in MN10300 assembly have a
> special meaning (pointer access).
> 
> Apparently, there is a conflict between [1] and [3].  After all,
> [3] took precedence, and a long time has passed since then.
> 
> Now, merge the two patterns again because the first one is covered
> by the other.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks

Matthias
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