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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 11:21:05 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>, Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix pre-2.40 binutils assembler error
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On Mon,  6 Oct 2025 13:56:34 +0200 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> Old binutils versions require a slightly stricter syntax for the .arch_extension
> directive and fail with the extra semicolon:
> 
> /tmp/cclfMnj9.s:656: Error: unknown architectural extension `simd;'
> 
> Drop the semicolon to make it work with all supported toolchain version.

Saeed, could you ack? I think we should get this merged quickly since
it's a build fix.