Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] arch: vdso: remove if-conditionals of $(c-gettimeofday-y)

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2021 12:36:08 +1000

Masahiro Yamada <[email-masked]> writes:
> arm, arm64, csky, mips, powerpc always select GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY,
> hence $(gettimeofday-y) never becomes empty.
>
> riscv conditionally selects GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY when MMU=y && 64BIT=y,
> but arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday.o is built only under that
> condition. So, you can always define CFLAGS_vgettimeofday.o
>
> Remove all the meaningless conditionals.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email-masked]>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
>   - Fix csky as well
>
>  arch/arm/vdso/Makefile              |  4 ----
>  arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile     |  5 +----
>  arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile   |  3 ---
>  arch/csky/kernel/vdso/Makefile      |  4 +---
>  arch/mips/vdso/Makefile             |  2 --
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/Makefile | 14 ++++++--------
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/Makefile | 14 ++++++--------

I noticed this the other day and was puzzled why we still needed
the conditional, thanks for cleaning it up.

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]> (powerpc)

cheers