linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.19 5/6] ARM: 8788/1: ftrace: remove old mcount support

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Date:   Tue, 11 Jan 2022 13:04:18 -0800
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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        Stefan Agner <stefan@...er.ch>,
        Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 5/6] ARM: 8788/1: ftrace: remove old mcount support

 On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 6:41 AM Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> From: Stefan Agner <stefan@...er.ch>
>
> commit d3c61619568c88d48eccd5e74b4f84faa1440652 upstream.
>
> Commit cafa0010cd51 ("Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6")
> raised the minimum GCC version to 4.6. Old mcount is only required for
> GCC versions older than 4.4.0. Hence old mcount support can be dropped
> too.

cafa0010cd51 first landed in v4.19-rc1, so that lgtm.
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers