Re: [PATCH 1/7] Compiler Attributes: remove unused attributes

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Aug 31 2018 - 14:54:08 EST


On Fri, 2018-08-31 at 11:43 -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> I don't think minimal supported versions are required for these clean
> ups, and would not block these patches from landing on that.

Nor would I, but it's one of those symmetry things.

Likely, someone would eventually complain if their old
icc/clang compiler failed to produce a functional kernel.

If the minimum versions aren't really known and nobody
notices, then it really doesn't matter.