Re: [PATCH] scripts: headers_install.sh: Normalize __ASSEMBLY__ to __ASSEMBLER__

"Maciej W. Rozycki" <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:31:42 +0100 (BST)
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-kbuild,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 17 Jul 2026, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:

> > > I don't have a specific case I can point you to. My goal was
> > > consistency. Therefore I am against reverting the patch as long as
> > > both __ASSEMBLER__ and __ASSEMBLY__ are used in the UAPI headers.
> > > If we want to switch to __ASSEMBLER__ for the UAPI headers today,
> > > we should instead invert the logic of this patch to consistently use it
> > > everywhere. After all UAPI headers are migrated, the normalization can
> > > then be removed.
> > 
> >  I believe Thomas specifically refers to the mention of the alleged 
> > shortcoming of pre-3.0 GCC, which we've since verified not to be true, as 
> > quoted elsewhere in this thread, so the note needs to be dropped in a 
> > respin.
> 
> It *was* dropped in a respin[0], which is the patch that got applied.

 Ah, OK.  I didn't get a match on the respin since it changed the subject.

  Maciej