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Message-ID: <20091115081736.GA29826@elte.hu>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:17:36 +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 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. [...]
My point was that by printing a warning 1000000000000000000000000000
times per build we effectively force them, by making life unpleasant.
Ingo
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