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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Subject: Re: Build failures with gcc 4.5 and older
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 11:34:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFzTPCoarqD7=2NFFvZjmZQjr=FhTWMFfLm+UfaF+M_ixg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180820174655.75739-1-ndesaulniers@google.com>

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 10:46 AM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
>
> I think we should take Joe's patch.

I'll happily take Joe's patch and get the whole "ancient gcc versions"
issue behind us.

We'll come back to it in a few years when 4.6 is ancient too, but for
now we have no pressing need not to support it.

Joe - proper commit message and sign-off?

                  Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-20 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-14 17:09 Build failures with gcc 4.5 and older Guenter Roeck
2018-08-14 17:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-14 17:36   ` Guenter Roeck
2018-08-14 20:19     ` Tony Luck
2018-08-15 16:09       ` Tony Luck
2018-08-15 16:34         ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-16  0:27           ` Guenter Roeck
2018-08-15 16:49         ` Guenter Roeck
2018-08-14 17:48 ` Joe Perches
2018-08-19 21:23   ` Kees Cook
2018-08-20 17:46   ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-08-20 18:34     ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2018-08-14 21:36 ` Andrew Morton
2018-08-14 22:15   ` Guenter Roeck
2018-08-14 23:02     ` Andrew Morton
2018-08-14 23:20       ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-15  1:02         ` Guenter Roeck
2018-08-20 14:53           ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-08-20 16:00             ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-08-15 12:40 ` David Laight
2018-08-15 15:44   ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-15 16:18     ` David Laight
2018-08-15 16:33       ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-16  9:17         ` David Laight

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