On Thu, 4 Mar 2021, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > The kernel build uses various tools, many of which are provided by the > same software suite, for example, LLVM and Binutils. > > When we raise the minimal version of Clang/LLVM, we need to update > clang_min_version in scripts/cc-version.sh and also lld_min_version in > scripts/ld-version.sh. > > In fact, Kbuild can handle CC=clang and LD=ld.lld independently, and we > could manage their minimal version separately, but it does not make > much sense. > > Make scripts/tool-version.sh a central place of minimum tool versions > so that we do not need to touch multiple files. It would be better and self-explanatory if a script that provides the minimum version of a tool was actually called ... min_tool-version.sh or the like. Otherwise one might think it would give e.g. the current version of installed tools. Nicolas
