On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:12 AM Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 11:00:28AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > This should be cc-option, not cc-ifversion, I think.
>
> Why?
For all the ridiculous distro gcc versions out there. Also, it seems
less fragile, since it tests for what you actually care about
>
> > But maybe we should consider dropping the problematic GCC version
> > instead? The old GCC versions with stack alignment problems are
> > seriously problematic for x86 kernels, and I don't really trust
> > kernels built with them.
>
> Can't - we just upped min gcc version to 4.8:
>
> 5429ef62bcf3 ("compiler/gcc: Raise minimum GCC version for kernel builds to
> 4.8")
>
> I mean we could but everytime we do that, it is all a big bikeshedding
> discussion. Even though almost everyone is using gcc9 or so to build...
Phooey.
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
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