On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 01:54:30AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Commit ccbef1674a15 ("Kbuild, lto: add ld-version and ld-ifversion
> macros") introduced scripts/ld-version.sh for GCC LTO.
>
> At that time, this script handled 5 version fields because GCC LTO
> needed the downstream binutils. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/8/272)
>
> The code snippet from the submitted patch was as follows:
>
> # We need HJ Lu's Linux binutils because mainline binutils does not
> # support mixing assembler and LTO code in the same ld -r object.
> # XXX check if the gcc plugin ld is the expected one too
> # XXX some Fedora binutils should also support it. How to check for that?
> ifeq ($(call ld-ifversion,-ge,22710001,y),y)
> ...
>
> However, GCC LTO was not merged into the mainline after all.
> (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/8/272)
>
> So, the 4th and 5th fields were never used, and finally removed by
> commit 0d61ed17dd30 ("ld-version: Drop the 4th and 5th version
> components").
>
> Since then, the last 4-digits returned by this script is always zeros.
>
> Remove the meaningless last 4-digits. This makes the version format
> consistent with GCC_VERSION, CLANG_VERSION, LLD_VERSION.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> arch/mips/loongson64/Platform | 2 +-
> arch/mips/vdso/Kconfig | 2 +-
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thomas.
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