From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, 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>,
Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning]
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110314180323.31785f81@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=3AiLaw5Gnis8Ha4eRXirk0s-Cnk2zzN12YDpH@mail.gmail.com>
> > 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.
>
> So what do you suggest that testers who want to, say, build old Linux
> kernel versions with new binutils do?
Use an older binutils. It's already the case you can't build old kernels
with current gcc and binutils, there have been repeated such events over
time and nobody has had too much trouble.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-14 18:04 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
2011-03-14 10:50 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-14 18:04 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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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