treewide: drop outdated compiler version remarks in Kconfig help texts

As of writing, Documentation/Changes states the minimal versions of GNU C
being 8.1, Clang being 15.0.0 and binutils being 2.30.  A few Kconfig help
texts are pointing out that specific GCC and Clang versions are needed,
but by now, those pointers to versions, such later than 4.0, later than
4.4, or clang later than 5.0, are obsolete and unlikely to be found by
users configuring their kernel builds anyway.

Drop these outdated remarks in Kconfig help texts referring to older
compiler and binutils versions.  No functional change.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251010082138.185752-1-lukas.bulwahn@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@redhat.com>
Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Russel King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 61130b8..31220f5 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -232,17 +232,14 @@ config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
 config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
        bool
        help
-         Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
-         for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
-         inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
-         __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
-         happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
-         particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
-         with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
-         store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
-         should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
-         hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>.  But just in case it
-         does, the use of the builtins is optional.
+         GCC and Clang have builtin functions for handling byte-swapping.
+         Using these allows the compiler to see what's happening and
+         offers more opportunity for optimisation. In particular, the
+         compiler will be able to combine the byteswap with a nearby load
+         or store and use load-and-swap or store-and-swap instructions if
+         the architecture has them. It should almost *never* result in code
+         which is worse than the hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>.
+         But just in case it does, the use of the builtins is optional.
 
          Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
          instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 4fb985b..ff61891 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1161,8 +1161,6 @@ config AEABI
          disambiguate both ABIs and allow for backward compatibility support
          (selected with CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT).
 
-         To use this you need GCC version 4.0.0 or later.
-
 config OABI_COMPAT
        bool "Allow old ABI binaries to run with this kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)"
        depends on AEABI && !THUMB2_KERNEL

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 3034e29..e89c024 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -332,8 +332,7 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZLIB
        depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib)
        depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib)
        help
-         Compress the debug information using zlib.  Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang
-         5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib.
+         Compress the debug information using zlib.
 
          Users of dpkg-deb via debian/rules may find an increase in
          size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the