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On 2023/08/05 17:02, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>>>> It's useful to have some minimal git version one can expect people to
>>>>> use. For now, set a somewhat conservative minimum of 1.8.0, which is
>>>>> already more then ten years old.

No problem with requiring git >= 1.8.0.

> 
> The default GCC on CentOS 7 is GCC 4.8,
> which is too old to build the kernel.
> 
> I am not so sure how RHEL/CentOS 7 users are working
> on the kernel development, but it is possible to
> install a newer gcc version from Developer Toolset.

CentOS 7 users can install a newer git version as well as gcc.

> commit f5983dab0ead92dc2690d147f0604a0badcac6a8
> Author: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
> Date:   Wed Jun 28 01:32:05 2023 +0900
> 
>     modpost: define more R_ARM_* for old distributions
> 
>     On CentOS 7, the following build error occurs.

It is glibc-headers-2.17-326.el7_9 package. Neither gcc nor git problem.