On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:41:00 -0400 Doug Ledford dledford@redhat.com wrote:

On Tue, 2018-03-13 at 14:51 -0700, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:

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From: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org 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.