From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] kbuild: collect minimum tool versions into scripts/tool-version.sh
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 15:41:22 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK7LNASsCokxgsMiOWq1wPyzpJN8KNprLb0YMSWiC6phzkTAmA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <798s9r5n-5nr8-1p1s-837-s07p72q72031@syhkavp.arg>
On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 7:10 AM Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2021, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>
> > The kernel build uses various tools, many of which are provided by the
> > same software suite, for example, LLVM and Binutils.
> >
> > When we raise the minimal version of Clang/LLVM, we need to update
> > clang_min_version in scripts/cc-version.sh and also lld_min_version in
> > scripts/ld-version.sh.
> >
> > In fact, Kbuild can handle CC=clang and LD=ld.lld independently, and we
> > could manage their minimal version separately, but it does not make
> > much sense.
> >
> > Make scripts/tool-version.sh a central place of minimum tool versions
> > so that we do not need to touch multiple files.
>
> It would be better and self-explanatory if a script that provides the
> minimum version of a tool was actually called ... min_tool-version.sh or
> the like. Otherwise one might think it would give e.g. the current
> version of installed tools.
>
>
> Nicolas
You are right. I will rename it.
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-05 6:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-03 18:33 [PATCH 1/4] kbuild: remove LLVM=1 test from HAS_LTO_CLANG Masahiro Yamada
2021-03-03 18:33 ` [PATCH 2/4] kbuild: collect minimum tool versions into scripts/tool-version.sh Masahiro Yamada
2021-03-04 0:11 ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-03-05 6:40 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-03-12 17:21 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-03-04 22:10 ` Nicolas Pitre
2021-03-05 6:41 ` Masahiro Yamada [this message]
2021-03-03 18:33 ` [PATCH 3/4] kbuild: check the minimum assembler version in Kconfig Masahiro Yamada
2021-03-04 0:28 ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-03-05 1:25 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-03-05 17:48 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-03-07 4:42 ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-03-03 18:33 ` [PATCH 4/4] kbuild: dwarf: use AS_VERSION instead of test_dwarf5_support.sh Masahiro Yamada
2021-03-03 20:44 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-03-12 17:18 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-03-04 0:30 ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-03-03 20:47 ` [PATCH 1/4] kbuild: remove LLVM=1 test from HAS_LTO_CLANG Nick Desaulniers
2021-03-05 6:06 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-03-08 19:11 ` Sami Tolvanen
2021-03-03 23:37 ` Nathan Chancellor
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