Drop the superfluous test for an old version of gcc.

The header file <linux/compiler.h> already enforces a suitably recent
version of gcc, so there's no point checking for that again.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 0dd0e7a1f6329fab9bfecb88f1363530459281e8..ea0f7250d22224488cac5529a712fa559fa8a020 100644 (file)
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -70,15 +70,7 @@
 /*
  * This is one of the first .c files built. Error out early if we have compiler
  * trouble.
- *
- * Versions of gcc older than that listed below may actually compile and link
- * okay, but the end product can have subtle run time bugs.  To avoid associated
- * bogus bug reports, we flatly refuse to compile with a gcc that is known to be
- * too old from the very beginning.
  */
-#if (__GNUC__ < 3) || (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 2)
-#error Sorry, your GCC is too old. It builds incorrect kernels.
-#endif
 
 #if __GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ == 1 && __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ == 0
 #warning gcc-4.1.0 is known to miscompile the kernel.  A different compiler version is recommended.