Re: [PATCH v2 03/10] compiler-gcc{3,4}.h: Use GCC_VERSION macro

Andrew Morton
2012-10-09T18:42:03Z

On Sun, 07 Oct 2012 13:27:58 -0500
Daniel Santos <danielfsantos@att.net> wrote:

> We'll have to ask Andrew. Maybe so he can test on those versions of gcc?
>
> commit d3ffe64a1dbcfe18b57f90f7c01c40c93d0a8b92
> Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Fri Sep 28 00:02:42 2012 +0000
>
> a
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
> index 934bc34..997fd8a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
> +++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
> /* GCC 4.1.[01] miscompiles __weak */
> #ifdef __KERNEL__
> # if __GNUC_MINOR__ == 1 && __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ <= 1
> -# error Your version of gcc miscompiles the __weak directive
> +//# error Your version of gcc miscompiles the __weak directive

hm, yeah, sorry, I use various old crufty cross-compilers.

There are quite a number of patches in -mm which aren't included in
linux-next and that's one of them. The
NEXT_PATCHES_START/NEXT_PATCHES_END markers in the series file identify
the patches which Stephen selects.