Hi Joe,

This might be my personal preference, but I think it would be quicker to
review patches: [...] if they were squashed into one patch.

[...]

the combined commit remains complete thought, i.e. for LoongArch
KLP builds, replace the arch's KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL (dropping -fPIE and
-mdirect-extern-access) and add -fPIC via KCFLAGS instead.

Makes sense. I'll squash patches 03 and 04 into a single patch and drop
the forward/backward references from the commit message.

I'd also pull out the configuration checks into validate_config() to be
consistent:

[...]

and then build_kernel() only needs to adjust the cmd / flags accordingly.

Agreed. I'll move the CONFIG_RELOCATABLE / CONFIG_AS_HAS_EXPLICIT_RELOCS
checks into validate_config() and leave build_kernel() to just set the
flags.

Thanks,
George