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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Raise the minimum GCC version to 5.2
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 17:52 +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 5:17 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > More cleanups will be possible as follow-up patches, but this one must
> > be agreed and applied to the mainline first.
> 
> +1 This will allow me to remove the __has_attribute hack in
> include/linux/compiler_attributes.h.

Why not raise the minimum gcc compiler version even higher?

https://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html