From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AEC5C433B4 for ; Tue, 4 May 2021 08:32:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E022B611AC for ; Tue, 4 May 2021 08:32:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230015AbhEDIdu (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2021 04:33:50 -0400 Received: from imap3.hz.codethink.co.uk ([176.9.8.87]:49130 "EHLO imap3.hz.codethink.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229875AbhEDIdt (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2021 04:33:49 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 2138 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 04 May 2021 04:33:48 EDT Received: from cpc79921-stkp12-2-0-cust288.10-2.cable.virginm.net ([86.16.139.33] helo=[192.168.0.18]) by imap3.hz.codethink.co.uk with esmtpsa (Exim 4.92 #3 (Debian)) id 1ldpvR-0000zx-0F; Tue, 04 May 2021 08:57:01 +0100 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Raise the minimum GCC version to 5.2 To: Joe Perches , Miguel Ojeda , Masahiro Yamada Cc: linux-kernel , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kbuild mailing list , Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Will Deacon , Miguel Ojeda , Catalin Marinas , Albert Ou , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Jonathan Corbet , Michael Ellerman , Palmer Dabbelt , Paul Mackerras , Paul Walmsley , Linux ARM , Linux Doc Mailing List , linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org References: <20210501151538.145449-1-masahiroy@kernel.org> <3943bc020f6227c8801907317fc113aa13ad4bad.camel@perches.com> From: Ben Dooks Organization: Codethink Limited. Message-ID: <65cda2bb-1b02-6ebc-0ea2-c48927524aa0@codethink.co.uk> Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 08:56:59 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3943bc020f6227c8801907317fc113aa13ad4bad.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On 02/05/2021 03:41, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 17:52 +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote: >> On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 5:17 PM Masahiro Yamada wrote: >>> >>> More cleanups will be possible as follow-up patches, but this one must >>> be agreed and applied to the mainline first. >> >> +1 This will allow me to remove the __has_attribute hack in >> include/linux/compiler_attributes.h. > > Why not raise the minimum gcc compiler version even higher? > > https://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html Some of us are a bit stuck as either customer refuses to upgrade their build infrastructure or has paid for some old but safety blessed version of gcc. These often lag years behind the recent gcc releases :( -- Ben Dooks http://www.codethink.co.uk/ Senior Engineer Codethink - Providing Genius https://www.codethink.co.uk/privacy.html