linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 79/95] x86/asm: Remove dead __GNUC_

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Message-ID: <d18bba8c-0d2c-03bd-0098-5f39ad726b01@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Date:   Tue, 7 May 2019 07:57:01 +0200
From:   Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 79/95] x86/asm: Remove dead __GNUC__
 conditionals

On 07/05/2019 07.38, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 88ca66d8540ca26119b1428cddb96b37925bdf01 ]
> 
> The minimum supported gcc version is >= 4.6, so these can be removed.

Eh, that bump happened for the 4.19 kernel, so this is not true for the
4.14 branch. Has cafa0010cd51fb711fdcb50fc55f394c5f167a0a been applied
to 4.14.y? Otherwise I don't think this is appropriate.

Rasmus