On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 17:12 -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 14:08 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:41:00 -0400 Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2018-03-13 at 14:51 -0700, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Subject: drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c: fix build with gcc-4.4.4
> > > >
> > > > gcc-4.4.4 has issues with initialization of anonymous unions.
> > >
> > > That compiler was released in April of 2010, almost a full 8 years ago.
> > > What still uses it, and do we seriously care?
> >
> > Documentation/Changes still says gcc-3.2. A few people are using the
> > older versions. There's talk going around about requiring something
> > more recent but nothing has happened yet.
>
> OK, count this as a grumble about the outdated compiler requirement :-/.
> The code this patches looks nice and clean, this patch uglies it up.
>
If it wasn't obvious BTW, this and the other patch you sent have been
applied to for-next area, begrudgingly ;-)
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Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
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