Re: [GIT PULL] EFI fixes

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jul 08 2020 - 12:21:02 EST


On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 11:57:18AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 11:26 AM Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > - Fix build regression on v4.8 and older
>
> Interesting.
>
> It's perhaps yet another reason to just skip gcc-4.8 too, since
> apparently 4.9 works.
>
> gcc-4.9 really has a lot of advantages. It's where (I think) gcc
> basically supports all C11 things, including _Generic() but also
> __auto_type.

+1

Anybody for nay, or should we just do this?