As has been discussed some time ago on ksumitt-discuss@ mailinglist,
the need for trivial tree diminished over time as all the tooling and
processess became much more mature and it's quite natural these days
for trivial patches to flow through subsystem trees anyway, so the
spin-off of a trivial tree doesn't make sense any more, and is not worth
the merge conflicts it might sometimes create.
So remove any mentions of it from kernel documentation for good.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/nycvar.YFH.7.76.2104222334290.18270@cbobk.fhfr.pm/
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Merge patch series from Nick Desaulniers to update the minimum gcc
version to 5.1.
This is some of the left-overs from the merge window that I didn't want
to deal with yesterday, so it comes in after -rc1 but was sent before.
Gcc-4.9 support has been an annoyance for some time, and with -Werror I
had the choice of applying a fairly big patch from Kees Cook to remove a
fair number of initializer warnings (still leaving some), or this patch
series from Nick that just removes the source of the problem.
The initializer cleanups might still be worth it regardless, but
honestly, I preferred just tackling the problem with gcc-4.9 head-on.
We've been more aggressiuve about no longer having to care about
compilers that were released a long time ago, and I think it's been a
good thing.
I added a couple of patches on top to sort out a few left-overs now that
we no longer support gcc-4.x.
As noted by Arnd, as a result of this minimum compiler version upgrade
we can probably change our use of '--std=gnu89' to '--std=gnu11', and
finally start using local loop declarations etc. But this series does
_not_ yet do that.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210909182525.372ee687@canb.auug.org.au/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK7LNASs6dvU6D3jL2GG3jW58fXfaj6VNOe55NJnTB8UPuk2pA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1438
* emailed patches from Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>:
Drop some straggling mentions of gcc-4.9 as being stale
compiler_attributes.h: drop __has_attribute() support for gcc4
vmlinux.lds.h: remove old check for GCC 4.9
compiler-gcc.h: drop checks for older GCC versions
Makefile: drop GCC < 5 -fno-var-tracking-assignments workaround
arm64: remove GCC version check for ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
powerpc: remove GCC version check for UPD_CONSTR
riscv: remove Kconfig check for GCC version for ARCH_RV64I
Kconfig.debug: drop GCC 5+ version check for DWARF5
mm/ksm: remove old GCC 4.9+ check
compiler.h: drop fallback overflow checkers
Documentation: raise minimum supported version of GCC to 5.1
Fix up the admin-guide README file to the new gcc-5.1 requirement, and
remove a stale comment about gcc support for the __assume_aligned__
attribute.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
