linux-kernel - Re: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning]

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Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:50:44 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>,
	"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>, binutils@...rceware.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Alan Modra <amodra@...il.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning]

Hi Alan,

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@...il.com> wrote:
> 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.

So what do you suggest that testers who want to, say, build old Linux
kernel versions with new binutils do?

                        Pekka
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