Date:   Mon, 20 Dec 2021 13:39:11 +0100
From:   Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To:     Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.14 5/6] ARM: 8788/1: ftrace: remove old mcount support
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On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 01:25:05PM +0100, Anders Roxell wrote:
> From: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
> 
> commit d3c61619568c88d48eccd5e74b4f84faa1440652 upstream.
> 
> Commit cafa0010cd51 ("Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6")

That commit is in 4.19, not 4.14.  So are you SURE this is ok for 4.14
and older kernels?

> raised the minimum GCC version to 4.6. Old mcount is only required for
> GCC versions older than 4.4.0. Hence old mcount support can be dropped
> too.

And as I asked on the 4.19 submission of this patch, what does this have
to do with clang?

thanks,

greg k-h