Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the arm tree

From: Russell King <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 23:19:59 +0000

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:16:37AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Russell,
> 
> After merging the arm tree, today's linux-next build (arm
> multi_v7_defconfig) produced this warning:
> 
> arch/arm/vfp/vfphw.S: Assembler messages:
> arch/arm/vfp/vfphw.S:158: Warning: conditional infixes are deprecated in unified syntax
> arch/arm/vfp/vfphw.S:233: Warning: conditional infixes are deprecated in unified syntax
> arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S: Assembler messages:
> arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S:285: Warning: conditional infixes are deprecated in unified syntax
> arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S:286: Warning: conditional infixes are deprecated in unified syntax
> arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S:365: Warning: conditional infixes are deprecated in unified syntax
> 
> And many more similar.
> 
> Presumably introduced by commit
> 
>   cabcafe5d1a5 ("ARM: 8723/1: always assume the "unified" syntax for assembly code")

Nicolas, was your patch tested?  Is this another binutils weirdness?

Stephen, which binutils version are you using?

Thanks.

-- 
Russell King
ARM architecture Linux Kernel maintainer