On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 03:43:43PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 3:34 PM Nathan Chancellor > <natechancel...@gmail.com> 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
