Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/11] ARM: samsung: fix assembly syntax for new gas | Date | Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:01:27 +0000 |
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On Saturday 16 February 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 02:49:18PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > Recent assembler versions complain about extraneous > > whitespace inside [] brackets. This fixes all of > > these instances for the samsung platforms. We should > > backport this to all kernels that might need to > > be built with new binutils. > > I hope that's also been reported as a bug to the binutils people.
No, I did not think of that. There were a lot of bug reports for similar issues and I assumed that there was a good reason for the change, but I agree that it sounds like a regression, especially since the code that triggers the error should not be ambiguous and there was never a warning about it.
Arnd
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