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Message-ID: <20110314121028.GD23257@elte.hu> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:10:28 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@...hat.com>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>, binutils@...rceware.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Alan Modra <amodra@...il.com> Subject: Re: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning] * Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org> wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org> writes: > >> So what do you suggest that testers who want to, say, build old Linux > >> kernel versions with new binutils do? > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@...hat.com> wrote: > > The same that testers have to do in order to build old Linux kernel > > versions with current versions of make. > > Are you saying it's OK to screw over binutils users because GNU Make > did that too? The claim is not even true. While really old Linux versions wont build with fresh versions of Make, something like v2.6.30, which is a 2 years old kernel, will build just fine, using latest Make. So lets stop coming up with all the wrong reasons to not fix this problem ... Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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