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From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:27:19 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: remove GCC < 4.9 support
To:     "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
        Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>,
        Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@baikalelectronics.ru>,
        linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 4:19 PM Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2020, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
>
> > > Remove a tautology; since
> > > commit 0bddd227f3dc ("Documentation: update for gcc 4.9 requirement")
> > > which raised the minimally supported version of GCC to 4.9, this case is
> > > always true.
> > >
> > > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/427
> > > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/mips/include/asm/compiler.h | 9 +--------
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > applied to mips-next.
>
>  It probably makes sense to get rid of GCC_OFF_SMALL_ASM altogether, as
> this syntactical indirection brings us nothing at this point and only
> obfuscates sources.

Sure, that sounds good. Send a patch!
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers