Le 17/06/2016 18:46, Daniel Borkmann a écrit :
> On 06/17/2016 06:34 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 16:09:20 +0000
>> Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Please have a look at commit 8f80d450c3cb ("tc: fix compilation with old gcc
>>> (< 4.6)") ...
>>>
>>> Your changes effectively revert them again. Here, and some other parts of
>>> the
>>> bpf frontend
>>> code bits.
>>
>> GCC 4.6 is 3 years old. So perhaps it is time to move on.
>> Maybe add a GCC version check in the makefile, to fail cleanly.
>
> Well, you don't have to ask me but rather the patch submitters (Cc).
>
> I haven't used RHEL in quite a while, but I could imagine it might
> be related to built it there perhaps.
Yes. For some specific arch, we have only old toolchains.
The rule was always to be backward compatible with old kernels. It implies to
also support the compilation with old toolchains ;-)
