On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Supporting two different intermediate-artifact packaging schemes > was only ever intended as a temporary transition. > > This has so far caused no problems for powerpc, after a small fix > for how the arch invoked ar. So now allow any arch to select the > option, continue defaulting to N. > > Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > The next step will be to have archs always select THIN_ARCHIVES > when they are known to work. Then remove the option entirely. > > x86 has always just worked for me, so that should be easy. I have build-tested many thousand randconfig kernels on arm32 with this option enabled, and did not run into build-time regressions besides some initial problems from a broken binutils snapshot (all released binutils versions should be fine). Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html