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From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>,
	akpm@linuxfoundation.org, mingo@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: add support for gcc 5
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 23:37:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54092FE0.3030004@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409874455.2770.26.camel@joe-AO725>

On 09/04/2014 07:47 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 00:43 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>> > Most statements are already depending on GCC_VERSION, maybe we can just
>> > unify all gcc specific headers to one, still trying to keep the file
>> > organized? ;)
> Maybe something like:
> 
> gnu development of gcc will be more frequent and the use of
> compiler-gcc<major>.h likely will not be convenient anymore.
> 
> Integrate the individual compiler-gcc<major>.h files into
> compiler-gcc.h.

Please no. We have a similar file we maintain in our team that's supposed to
do something very similar for kernel versions. It goes all the way back to
2.6.9 and it's a *horrible* mess.

This is how compiler-gcc.h will end up looking in a while.


Thanks,
Sasha

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-05  3:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-04 15:37 Sasha Levin
2014-09-04 21:12 ` Andrew Morton
2014-09-04 21:19   ` Richard Weinberger
2014-09-04 21:25     ` Andrew Morton
2014-09-04 21:38       ` Sasha Levin
2014-09-05 15:04       ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-04 21:25 ` Aaro Koskinen
2014-09-04 21:32   ` Sasha Levin
2014-09-04 22:43   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-09-04 23:47     ` Joe Perches
2014-09-05  3:37       ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2014-09-05  3:58         ` Joe Perches
2014-09-05  4:08         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-09-05 14:44           ` Sasha Levin
2014-09-05 20:39             ` [PATCH] gcc: clamp gcc version to most highest specific header version available Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-09-05 21:09               ` Joe Perches
2014-09-05 22:38                 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa

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