Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] compiler_attributes.h: cleanups for GCC 4.9+

From: Miguel Ojeda
Date: Mon Jun 21 2021 - 19:31:16 EST


On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 1:18 AM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Since
> commit 6ec4476ac825 ("Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9")
> we no longer support building the kernel with GCC 4.8; drop the
> preprocess checks for __GNUC_MINOR__ version. It's implied that if
> __GNUC_MAJOR__ is 4, then the only supported version of __GNUC_MINOR__
> left is 9.

Yeah, I was waiting for the raise to 5.x to remove the entire block,
but this is of course good since we did not get that yet :-)

Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,
Miguel