linux-kernel - Re: + recordmcount-stfu.patch added to -mm tree

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Message-ID: <20091114092718.GA10969@elte.hu>
Date:	Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:27:18 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, lihong.hi@...il.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: + recordmcount-stfu.patch added to -mm tree


* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 21:26 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > Dunno, really.  How many people are running old objdump, and do we 
> > want to retard the rate at which the stragglers will upgrade?
> 
> I guess not, but by printing out a warning 
> 1000000000000000000000000000 times per build, it may encourage them to 
> upgrade ;-)

If that binutils version is still supported this is not the right 
method. People are in their full rights to be at any version within the 
supported versions interval, and we should not 'force' them.

	Ingo
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