linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] EFI fixes

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Message-ID: <20200708162053.GU4800@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Wed, 8 Jul 2020 18:20:53 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        linux-efi <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] EFI fixes

On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 11:57:18AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 11:26 AM Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > - Fix build regression on v4.8 and older
> 
> Interesting.
> 
> It's perhaps yet another reason to just skip gcc-4.8 too, since
> apparently 4.9 works.
> 
> gcc-4.9 really has a lot of advantages. It's where (I think) gcc
> basically supports all C11 things, including _Generic() but also
> __auto_type.

+1

Anybody for nay, or should we just do this?