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 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D58FFC433B4 for ; Tue, 4 May 2021 08:55:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [112.213.38.117]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F00DB611CB for ; Tue, 4 May 2021 08:55:05 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org F00DB611CB Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=codethink.co.uk Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Received: from boromir.ozlabs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FZDF43VVkz30Cw for ; Tue, 4 May 2021 18:55:04 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; spf=pass (sender SPF authorized) smtp.mailfrom=codethink.co.uk (client-ip=176.9.8.87; helo=imap3.hz.codethink.co.uk; envelope-from=ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk; receiver=) X-Greylist: delayed 2142 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at boromir; Tue, 04 May 2021 18:32:57 AEST Received: from imap3.hz.codethink.co.uk (imap3.hz.codethink.co.uk [176.9.8.87]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4FZClY1gL3z2xZM for ; Tue, 4 May 2021 18:32:55 +1000 (AEST) Received: from cpc79921-stkp12-2-0-cust288.10-2.cable.virginm.net ([86.16.139.33] helo=[192.168.0.18]) by imap3.hz.codethink.co.uk with esmtpsa (Exim 4.92 #3 (Debian)) id 1ldpvR-0000zx-0F; Tue, 04 May 2021 08:57:01 +0100 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Raise the minimum GCC version to 5.2 To: Joe Perches , Miguel Ojeda , Masahiro Yamada References: <20210501151538.145449-1-masahiroy@kernel.org> <3943bc020f6227c8801907317fc113aa13ad4bad.camel@perches.com> From: Ben Dooks Organization: Codethink Limited. Message-ID: <65cda2bb-1b02-6ebc-0ea2-c48927524aa0@codethink.co.uk> Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 08:56:59 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3943bc020f6227c8801907317fc113aa13ad4bad.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 04 May 2021 18:54:44 +1000 X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Albert Ou , Arnd Bergmann , Linux Kbuild mailing list , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jonathan Corbet , Linux Doc Mailing List , linux-kernel , Linus Torvalds , Palmer Dabbelt , Paul Walmsley , Catalin Marinas , Miguel Ojeda , Paul Mackerras , linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Will Deacon , Linux ARM Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On 02/05/2021 03:41, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 17:52 +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote: >> On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 5:17 PM Masahiro Yamada wrote: >>> >>> More cleanups will be possible as follow-up patches, but this one must >>> be agreed and applied to the mainline first. >> >> +1 This will allow me to remove the __has_attribute hack in >> include/linux/compiler_attributes.h. > > Why not raise the minimum gcc compiler version even higher? > > https://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html Some of us are a bit stuck as either customer refuses to upgrade their build infrastructure or has paid for some old but safety blessed version of gcc. These often lag years behind the recent gcc releases :( -- Ben Dooks http://www.codethink.co.uk/ Senior Engineer Codethink - Providing Genius https://www.codethink.co.uk/privacy.html