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

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Message-Id: <1258231467.22249.438.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:44:26 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
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

On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 10:27 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * 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.

It's not forcing them. The patch I posted gave a way to disable that
warning.

But I agree with Andrew, the correct approach is to have it warn just
once. The posted patch was just an easier approach.

-- Steve


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