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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
akeromi · Oct 19, 2007 · d8af7c6 · d8af7c6
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 /*
  * 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.