On 7/8/20 11:57 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 11:45 AM Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> wrote:
>> - - Make sure you have at least gcc 4.6 available.
>> + - Make sure you have at least gcc 4.9 available.
>> -GNU C 4.8 gcc --version
>> +GNU C 4.9 gcc --version
>
> Heh. The docs clearly weren't in sync before either.
>
> Maybe we should add a
>
> Fixes: 5429ef62bcf3 ("compiler/gcc: Raise minimum GCC version for
> kernel builds to 4.8")
uh, yes.
Should I resend it?
> to your patch too.
>
> I only grepped for the obvious GCC_VERSION string. Which is presumably
> what everybody else who has ever done this have also grepped for,
> although in all fairness Will at least caught the one in
> Documentation/process/changes.rst when he updated it last time.
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~Randy
