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Date:   Tue, 7 May 2019 08:15:03 +0200
From:   Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc:     Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        stable@vger.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
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        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 79/95] x86/asm: Remove dead __GNUC__
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On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 07:57:01AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 07/05/2019 07.38, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
> > 
> > [ Upstream commit 88ca66d8540ca26119b1428cddb96b37925bdf01 ]
> > 
> > The minimum supported gcc version is >= 4.6, so these can be removed.
> 
> Eh, that bump happened for the 4.19 kernel, so this is not true for the
> 4.14 branch. Has cafa0010cd51fb711fdcb50fc55f394c5f167a0a been applied
> to 4.14.y? Otherwise I don't think this is appropriate.

No, that commit is not in 4.14, so we still have to "support" older
versions of gcc there :(

Sasha, can you drop this?

thanks,

greg k-h