On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 04:52:27PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > I guess we now have Kbuild/Kconfig support for this, no? I mean, we > can now show/hide options depending on the capabilities of the > toolchain. Config options depending on flags availability? > I am not saying it would be a better approach, though - I'd rather > have a warning than have things silently disabled, but other people > may think differently. Even then this switch has to be enabled, no matter who or what sets it. Note that this patch leaves everything as-is. Only arm64 users with "old" compilers would need to take action. Torsten