This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled compiler-gcc.h: Add gcc-recommended GCC_VERSION macro to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: compiler-gcc.h-add-gcc-recommended-gcc_version-macro.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c12558716007837227b962caa4299b355870fed6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:41:39 -0800 Subject: compiler-gcc.h: Add gcc-recommended GCC_VERSION macro From: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@xxxxxxxxx> commit 3f3f8d2f48acfd8ed3b8e6b7377935da57b27b16 upstream. Throughout compiler*.h, many version checks are made. These can be simplified by using the macro that gcc's documentation recommends. However, my primary reason for adding this is that I need bug-check macros that are enabled at certain gcc versions and it's cleaner to use this macro than the tradition method: #if __GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ => 2) If you add patch level, it gets this ugly: #if __GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && (__GNUC_MINOR__ > 2 || \ __GNUC_MINOR__ == 2 __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ >= 1)) As opposed to: #if GCC_VERSION >= 40201 While having separate headers for gcc 3 & 4 eliminates some of this verbosity, they can still be cleaned up by this. See also: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Common-Predefined-Macros.html Signed-off-by: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Qiang Huang <h.huangqiang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ /* * Common definitions for all gcc versions go here. */ +#define GCC_VERSION (__GNUC__ * 10000 \ + + __GNUC_MINOR__ * 100 \ + + __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__) /* Optimization barrier */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from daniel.santos@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/compiler-gcc.h-add-gcc-recommended-gcc_version-macro.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html