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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kbuild: collect minimum tool versions into scripts/min-tool-version.sh
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, Miguel Ojeda wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:47 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > +# When you raise the minimum version, please update
> > +# Documentation/process/changes.rst as well.
> > +min_gcc_version=4.9.0
> > +min_llvm_version=10.0.1
> > +min_icc_version=16.0.3 # temporary
> > +min_binutils_version=2.23.0
>
> +1 to creating a central place for all minimum versions.
>
> Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
>
> I wonder if you considered creating a folder with files like
> `scripts/min_versions/gcc` containing the version string. That would
> make it easier for reading from other languages or even importing them
> dynamically into the documentation, thus removing even more
> duplication.

Alternatively, the documentation could be the actual reference and the
script would parse the documentation to get those values out.


Nicolas

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