Re: [RFC] Increase Minimal GNU Make version for Linux Kernel from 3.80 to 3.81

From	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC] Increase Minimal GNU Make version for Linux Kernel from 3.80 to 3.81
Date	2017-05-03 17:50 +0200
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On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 11:46 PM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:
>
> From the above, I'd like to propose to increase the minimal version of
> GNU Make to 3.81.

Ack.

From earlier (uinrelated) discussion, I think we have other cases
where the "minimum recommended" may not be true (even gcc - it might
be true on some architectures with simple configs, but we've had
long-standing known issues with some more complex configurations where
the "minimum" gcc version simply didn't cut it and could generate
incorrect code).

For the GNU make case, you make a strong case of "it hasn't worked for
a while already and nobody even noticed".

                        Linus

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[RFC] Increase Minimal GNU Make version for Linux Kernel from 3.80 to 3.81 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2017-05-03 08:50 +0200
  Re: [RFC] Increase Minimal GNU Make version for Linux Kernel from  3.80 to 3.81 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-05-03 14:10 +0200
  Re: [RFC] Increase Minimal GNU Make version for Linux Kernel from  3.80 to 3.81 Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> - 2017-05-03 15:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC] Increase Minimal GNU Make version for Linux Kernel  from 3.80 to 3.81 "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> - 2017-05-03 15:50 +0200
  Re: [RFC] Increase Minimal GNU Make version for Linux Kernel from  3.80 to 3.81 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-05-03 17:50 +0200

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