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author | Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> | 2020-10-13 16:47:55 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-10-13 18:38:26 -0700 |
commit | c8db3b0a7ba7614f761f309d6aa7499127b18a0b (patch) | |
tree | 568e0ee92253f3a6950ca8ba333c182521e8eb44 /include/linux/compiler.h | |
parent | 527f6750d92beb9c787d8aba48477b1e834d64e5 (diff) |
compiler-gcc: improve version error
As Kees suggests, doing so provides developers with two useful pieces of
information:
- The kernel build was attempting to use GCC.
(Maybe they accidentally poked the wrong configs in a CI.)
- They need 4.9 or better.
("Upgrade to what version?" doesn't need to be dug out of documentation,
headers, etc.)
Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200902225911.209899-8-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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