From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: add support for gcc 5
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 08:04:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5409D0EA.8000203@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140904142529.860f4dc4514def7fb7a9d365@linux-foundation.org>
On 09/04/2014 02:25 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>> CC'ing Hannes, he sent a much simpler gcc5 patch a few days ago.
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/26/710
>
> That approach won't last for long - as soon as we add some
> gcc5-specific thing, we'll need a new file.
>
> Let history be a guide:
>
> diff -u include/linux/compiler-gcc3.h include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
It seems much saner to do that branching when we actually need to. In
the meantime I suspect that a handful of redefinitions would actually be
cleaner.
-hpa
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2014-09-04 21:12 ` [PATCH] kernel: add support for gcc 5 Andrew Morton
2014-09-04 21:19 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-09-04 21:25 ` Andrew Morton
2014-09-04 21:38 ` Sasha Levin
2014-09-05 15:04 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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