As Kees suggests, do so provides developers with two useful pieces of
information:
- The kernel build was attempting to use GCC.
(Maybe they accidentally poked the wrong configs in a CI.)
- They need 4.9 or better.
("Upgrade to what version?" doesn't need to be dug out of documentation,
headers, etc.)
Suggested-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
index 7a3769040d7d..d1e3c6896b71 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
/* https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58145 */
#if GCC_VERSION < 40900
-# error Sorry, your compiler is too old - please upgrade it.
+# error Sorry, your version of GCC is too old - please use 4.9 or newer.
#endif
/* Optimization barrier */
--
2.28.0.402.g5ffc5be6b7-goog
