On 12/09/2019 23.54, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 6:11 AM Segher Boessenkool > <seg...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 06:04:54PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote: >> >>> How would you even write a version check for that? >> >> I wouldn't. Please stop using that straw man. I'm not saying version >> checks are good, or useful for most things. I am saying they are not. > > Then please help Rasmus with a suggestion on how best to detect and > safely make use of the feature you implemented. As is, the patch in > question is using version checks.
I was just about to send out an updated version. I'm just going to do the check in Kconfig - I didn't realize how easy it had become to do that kind of thing until Masahiro pointed me at his RFC patch from December. Rasmus