From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
binutils@sourceware.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning]
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110314104131.GG6275@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110314095534.GB18058@elte.hu>
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:55:34AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> The thing is, it is absolutely, breath-takingy incompetent for
kernel developers to write such poor asm! And not notice the error
for 4 years! Oh, and the binutils developers to write such a poor
assembler in the first place. ;-)
Seriously, you are complaining because something is fixed??
> The correct solution is to turn it into a warning as me and others have suggested.
I disagree. The whole world is not the linux kernel. I think HJ is
bending over backwards to even offer a switch that turns the error
into a warning.
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-14 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-11 16:58 H.J. Lu
2011-03-11 17:04 ` Jan Beulich
2011-03-11 17:20 ` H.J. Lu
2011-03-14 8:44 ` Jan Beulich
2011-03-14 9:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-14 10:41 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2011-03-14 10:50 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-14 18:04 ` Alan Cox
2011-03-14 10:52 ` Jan Beulich
[not found] ` <AANLkTi=3AiLaw5Gnis8Ha4eRXirk0s-Cnk2zzN12YDpH__45869.1711457961$1300099861$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-14 11:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-14 11:12 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-14 12:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-14 12:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-14 12:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-14 13:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-14 14:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-14 12:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-14 12:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-14 12:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-14 13:16 ` git bisect plus fixes (was: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning]) Ralf Wildenhues
2011-03-14 13:55 ` PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning] H.J. Lu
2011-03-16 23:56 ` Alan Modra
2011-03-18 11:20 ` Alan Modra
2011-03-18 11:59 ` Alan Modra
2011-03-14 11:02 Sedat Dilek
2011-03-14 11:25 ` Jan Beulich
2011-03-14 11:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-14 11:39 ` Sedat Dilek
2011-03-14 11:53 ` Sedat Dilek
2011-03-14 12:22 ` Jan Beulich
2011-03-14 12:38 ` Sedat Dilek
2011-03-14 15:56 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-03-14 18:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-03-14 16:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-03-14 19:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-14 20:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-14 12:57 ` Ingo Molnar
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