On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 03:41:18PM +0100, Anders Roxell wrote: > From: Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx> > > commit d3c61619568c88d48eccd5e74b4f84faa1440652 upstream. > > Commit cafa0010cd51 ("Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6") > raised the minimum GCC version to 4.6. Old mcount is only required for > GCC versions older than 4.4.0. Hence old mcount support can be dropped > too. > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx> Why is this needed for clang builds in 4.19?