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From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] lib/Kconfig.debug: Add check for non-constant
 .{s,u}leb128 support to DWARF5
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On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 13:42:11 -0700 Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> wrote:

> When building with a RISC-V kernel with DWARF5 debug info using clang
> and the GNU assembler, several instances of the following error appear:
> 
>   /tmp/vgettimeofday-48aa35.s:2963: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported

hm, which kernels want this?

I could merge it for 6.1, which seems suitable.  If we want it
backported into earlier kernels then a Fixes: would be nice, to prevent
it from being ported back further than necessary.