[PATCH 1/2] gcc-plugins: Explicitly document purpose and deprecation schedule

Miguel Ojeda miguel.ojeda.sandonis at gmail.com
Wed Oct 20 17:44:19 UTC 2021


On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 7:35 PM Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> +Purpose
> +=======

Sounds good to me.

>  config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV
>         bool
> +       # Plugin can be removed once the kernel only supports GCC 6.1.0+

Since we are just giving the major in the other cases below, I would
just say GCC 6+ here (the numbering scheme changed in GCC 5 already).

Thanks for adding the versions, by the way -- this is useful long-term
and not always done for other things...

Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda at kernel.org>

Cheers,
Miguel



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