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

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Date:   Wed, 8 Jul 2020 12:04:23 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.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 7/8/20 11:57 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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")

uh, yes.
Should I resend it?

> 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.


-- 
~Randy