From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18CA1EB64D9 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:58:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231200AbjF0L6y (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2023 07:58:54 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:58328 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231246AbjF0L6v (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2023 07:58:51 -0400 Received: from gandalf.ozlabs.org (mail.ozlabs.org [IPv6:2404:9400:2221:ea00::3]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7D66C1722; Tue, 27 Jun 2023 04:58:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from authenticated.ozlabs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mail.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4Qr3C80dbtz4w2B; Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:58:44 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ellerman.id.au; s=201909; t=1687867125; bh=DMI9usNvrSNruiGgU2vzUgMO0263STXJtbXbh2Pjm34=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=ZRT/Gwxnf/muFUzbV5/CYYrQkOzC8ev8SYk0jjQnrKFoNQvUIPLqlVZszNK6wFfo1 aOSj5NXpgg9OX0qwloCURm8hXaV+bvKXM+P0qawrSdIjYxNv2kNkE4wgHN65sXnPZJ dF4nTWdJ22meg+mIX7/z05PKjhqPk5jfhVkoZ5ga283XvhPBB+SMPd83TnBYNczzOh jytqtVXtg6sACDOUbPkxVhvfVJeeTP7IGqjYvGEGAsKMRDu1RNiG59P8UzS3YeKdnx sEvH9GCQTLzuQixXGRjHEpRch8QrT6HiQ7UM44Jr2zMAWNQN9Gnhdh8peSJXfB1DpS I0e+PZzSc8WKQ== From: Michael Ellerman To: Masahiro Yamada , Joel Stanley , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Nicholas Piggin , Christophe Leroy , Nathan Chancellor , Nick Desaulniers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Schier Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: remove checks for binutils older than 2.25 In-Reply-To: References: <20230119082250.151485-1-masahiroy@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:58:39 +1000 Message-ID: <87h6qtglqo.fsf@mail.lhotse> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Masahiro Yamada writes: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 9:37=E2=80=AFPM Masahiro Yamada wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 9:12 PM Joel Stanley wrote: >> > >> > On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 08:24, Masahiro Yamada w= rote: >> > > >> > > Commit e4412739472b ("Documentation: raise minimum supported version= of >> > > binutils to 2.25") allows us to remove the checks for old binutils. >> > > >> > > There is no more user for ld-ifversion. Remove it as well. >> > >> > ppc kernels fail to link with 2.27 under some configurations: >> > >> > https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/388 >> > >> > We may want to use ld-ifversion to exclude that version. >> > > Ping? Sorry. I've now applied the binutils 2.27 patch from Naveen, and this on top with minor tweaks to make it apply. The result is in my next branch. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?h= =3Dnext cheers