[PATCH] crypto: arm: workaround for building with old binutils

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Sat Apr 11 13:54:43 PDT 2015


On Saturday 11 April 2015 15:32:34 Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> How about something like this:
> 
> A warning will be emitted by make when descending into the arch/arm/crypto
> directory, but only if any ARMv8 Crypto modules were in fact selected.
> 
> /home/ard/linux-2.6/arch/arm/crypto/Makefile:22: These ARMv8 Crypto Extensions modules need binutils 2.23 or higher
> /home/ard/linux-2.6/arch/arm/crypto/Makefile:23: aes-arm-ce.o sha1-arm-ce.o sha2-arm-ce.o ghash-arm-ce.o
> 
> 

Looks good. Do you want me to do more randconfig tests on this, or put it in
right away to fix the allmodconfig problem?

	Arnd



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