On Mon, 2018-08-20 at 14:42 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 13:15:26 -0700 > Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > +#if GCC_VERSION < 40600 > > +# error Sorry, your compiler is too old - please upgrade it. > > +#endif > > It seems we could be a little friendlier here? "Kernel compilation > requires GCC >= v4.6, please upgrade" ? This is unchanged text, it's just moved around, but sure, trivial... Wordsmithing should likely be a separate patch though. --- include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h index 250b9b7cfd60..5d95cabd13b3 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ + __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__) #if GCC_VERSION < 40600 -# error Sorry, your compiler is too old - please upgrade it. +# error Kernel compilation requires GCC >= v4.6, please upgrade your compiler #endif /* Optimization barrier */
