On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 7:10 AM Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 You are right. I will rename it. -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
