Re: [PATCH] powerpc: remove checks for binutils older than 2.25

[Michael Ellerman]

Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 9:37 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 9:12 PM Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 08:24, Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Commit e4412739472b ("Documentation: raise minimum supported version of
>> > > binutils to 2.25") allows us to remove the checks for old binutils.
>> > >
>> > > There is no more user for ld-ifversion. Remove it as well.
>> >
>> > ppc kernels fail to link with 2.27 under some configurations:
>> >
>> >  https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/388
>> >
>> > We may want to use ld-ifversion to exclude that version.
>>
>
> Ping?

Sorry. I've now applied the binutils 2.27 patch from Naveen, and this on
top with minor tweaks to make it apply. The result is in my next branch.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?h=next

cheers