linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Partially revert patch that encloses asm-offset.h numbers in brackets

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Date:	Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:37:26 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>,
	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Partially revert patch that encloses asm-offset.h numbers
 in brackets

On 10/25/2010 09:16 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:50 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>>
>> As such, the only options I can really think about overriding the sed
>> expression for x86 or just saying gcc 2.16.90 or later is required...
> 
> gas, not gcc. But yeah, maybe we can do that. How long has this space
> breakage been going on? If it's a "we got a report from this one guy"
> kind of thing, then just saying "we don't support old gas versions
> because they are too broken" is probably the right thing to do.
> 
> No reason to make for maintenance problems and uglier code if we can
> just say "get a newer gas" to a few people. It's not like we haven't
> done that with gcc and other tools too.
> 
>                        Linus

The problem is that 2.16 isn't all that old; al lot of the "enterprise"
distros still ship it or AFAIK even older versions.  2.6.90 which I
*think* is the first fixed version dates from April 2005, so is
currently 5 years old; maybe that is within reason to kill off.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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