linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update for gcc 4.9 requirement

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=whkuOeHvA_ws=usQt=rYq_M2vh448mDxY7kYhUmp_Lomw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 8 Jul 2020 11:57:40 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        "linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update for gcc 4.9 requirement

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 11:45 AM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:
> - - Make sure you have at least gcc 4.6 available.
> + - Make sure you have at least gcc 4.9 available.
> -GNU C                  4.8              gcc --version
> +GNU C                  4.9              gcc --version

Heh. The docs clearly weren't in sync before either.

Maybe we should add a

  Fixes: 5429ef62bcf3 ("compiler/gcc: Raise minimum GCC version for
kernel builds to 4.8")

to your patch too.

I only grepped for the obvious GCC_VERSION string. Which is presumably
what everybody else who has ever done this have also grepped for,
although in all fairness Will at least caught the one in
Documentation/process/changes.rst when he updated it last time.

                 Linus