linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 09/10] compiler/gcc: Raise minimum GCC version for kernel builds to 4.8

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Message-ID: <20200124232944.GD14914@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Sat, 25 Jan 2020 00:29:44 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-team <kernel-team@...roid.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/10] compiler/gcc: Raise minimum GCC version for
 kernel builds to 4.8

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 09:05:27AM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:

> Ack. Do maintainers have tools for fetching patch series and
> automating collecting Reviewed-by tags, or is it all extremely manual?

Both; I'm currently still doing it manually, but I know that for example
Thomas's scripts are a lot smarter and do it for him.

I'm meaning to switch to his scripts, but I suppose there's some inertia
at play :-)