[PATCH 3/4] crypto: arm64: generate *.S by Perl at build time instead of shipping them
Will Deacon
will at kernel.org
Mon Apr 26 09:58:36 BST 2021
[+Ard]
On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 02:57:33AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Generate *.S by Perl like arch/{mips,x86}/crypto/Makefile.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org>
> ---
>
> arch/arm64/crypto/Makefile | 9 +-
> arch/arm64/crypto/poly1305-core.S_shipped | 835 ---------
> arch/arm64/crypto/sha256-core.S_shipped | 2069 ---------------------
> arch/arm64/crypto/sha512-core.S_shipped | 1093 -----------
> 4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4003 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 arch/arm64/crypto/poly1305-core.S_shipped
> delete mode 100644 arch/arm64/crypto/sha256-core.S_shipped
> delete mode 100644 arch/arm64/crypto/sha512-core.S_shipped
What's the advantage of removing the _shipped files? We included them
originally so that we didn't require perl for the kernel build -- is that no
longer an issue?
I guess I'm just missing the justification for the change.
Cheers,
Will
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