linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: always_inline wrapper for x86's test

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Message-ID: <20080414122802.GA20350@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:28:02 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...lshack.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: always_inline wrapper for x86's test_bit

* Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm> wrote:

> B.T.W., debian and ubuntu don't provide gcc-3.2 packages. Is there a 
> good reason why gcc-3.2.3 (5 years old in a week) should still be 
> supported?

we normally desupport given gcc versions only if their support in the 
kernel is very difficult and leads to lots of uglinesses, or if a gcc 
version is known to fatally miscompile the kernel, with no workaround 
available.

i.e. we try not to break people's build setups (folks with a specific 
gcc version in a cross-build setup), without a good reason.

	Ingo
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