Re: [PATCH] mips: Remove compiler check in unroll macro

[Nathan Chancellor]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 03:43:43PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 3:34 PM Nathan Chancellor
> <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Clang 8 was chosen as a minimum version for this check because there
> > were some improvements around __builtin_constant_p in that release. In
> > reality, MIPS was not even buildable until clang 9 so that check was not
> > technically necessary. Just remove all compiler checks and just assume
> > that we have a working compiler.
> 
> Thanks, that looks much nicer.
> 
> Applied.
> 
> I think we could probably remove the (unrelated) clang-8 check in the
> arm side too, but I guess I'll let arm/clang people worry about it.
> 
>             Linus

Yes, we probably should. I'll comment more on that in the other thread.

Thanks for picking up the patch quickly!

Cheers,
Nathan