1 files changed, 6 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/Makefile b/arch/mips/kernel/Makefile
index f81d98f6184c..de75fb50562b 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/Makefile
@@ -100,29 +100,16 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_HW_PERF_EVENTS)	+= perf_event_mipsxx.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL)        += jump_label.o
 
 #
-# DSP ASE supported for MIPS32 or MIPS64 Release 2 cores only. It is safe
-# to enable DSP assembler support here even if the MIPS Release 2 CPU we
-# are targetting does not support DSP because all code-paths making use of
-# it properly check that the running CPU *actually does* support these
-# instructions.
+# DSP ASE supported for MIPS32 or MIPS64 Release 2 cores only. It is not
+# safe to unconditionnaly use the assembler -mdsp / -mdspr2 switches
+# here because the compiler may use DSP ASE instructions (such as lwx) in
+# code paths where we cannot check that the CPU we are running on supports it.
+# Proper abstraction using HAVE_AS_DSP and macros is done in
+# arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h.
 #
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR2), y)
 CFLAGS_DSP                      = -DHAVE_AS_DSP
 
-#
-# Check if assembler supports DSP ASE
-#
-ifeq ($(call cc-option-yn,-mdsp), y)
-CFLAGS_DSP                      += -mdsp
-endif
-
-#
-# Check if assembler supports DSP ASE Rev2
-#
-ifeq ($(call cc-option-yn,-mdspr2), y)
-CFLAGS_DSP                      += -mdspr2
-endif
-
 CFLAGS_signal.o                 = $(CFLAGS_DSP)
 CFLAGS_signal32.o               = $(CFLAGS_DSP)
 CFLAGS_process.o                = $(CFLAGS_DSP)