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

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Date:   Mon, 13 May 2019 10:36:10 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        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 Tue, May 07, 2019 at 08:15:03AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 07:57:01AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
>> 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.
>
>No, that commit is not in 4.14, so we still have to "support" older
>versions of gcc there :(
>
>Sasha, can you drop this?

Dropped, thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha