linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] ARM: unified: Remove check for gcc

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Message-Id: <20210210141140.1506212-3-geert+renesas@glider.be>
Date:   Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:11:38 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
To:     Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] ARM: unified: Remove check for gcc < 4

Since commit cafa0010cd51fb71 ("Raise the minimum required gcc version
to 4.6"), the kernel can no longer be compiled using gcc-3.
Hence this condition is never true, and the check can thus be removed.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/unified.h | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/unified.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/unified.h
index 1e2c3eb043535f7b..ce9689118dbb945b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/unified.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/unified.h
@@ -24,10 +24,6 @@ __asm__(".syntax unified");
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL
 
-#if __GNUC__ < 4
-#error Thumb-2 kernel requires gcc >= 4
-#endif
-
 /* The CPSR bit describing the instruction set (Thumb) */
 #define PSR_ISETSTATE	PSR_T_BIT
 
-- 
2.25.1