From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>,
Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Increase Minimal GNU Make version for Linux Kernel from 3.80 to 3.81
Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 05:05:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170503120519.GB21310@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7LNAT=jbA1GCp1ztoyjF+CxQHGGgOXEVCzr7+AXKaKQX1deg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 03:46:11PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hello Linus and Kbuild developers.
>
>
> Documentation/process/changes.rst says the minimal version
> of GNU Make is 3.80, but actually building the kernel
> with this version has been broken for a long time.
>
> Specifically, it got broken by commit c8589d1e9e01 (i.e. Linux 3.18).
> Sorry, it's me who broke it.
Given that no one has noticed since December of 2014, I think we are
safe to bump up the version required for make, as really you did it
already :)
So, no objection from me.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-03 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-03 6:46 [RFC] Increase Minimal GNU Make version for Linux Kernel from 3.80 to 3.81 Masahiro Yamada
2017-05-03 12:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2017-05-03 13:29 ` Michal Marek
2017-05-03 13:42 ` Jan Beulich
2017-05-03 15:42 ` Linus Torvalds
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