linux-kernel - Re: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning]

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Message-ID: <m3bp1dvp3l.fsf@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:55:10 +0100
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	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]

Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> writes:

> * Andreas Schwab <schwab@...hat.com> wrote:
>
>> Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org> writes:
>> 
>> > 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?
>> 
>> I'm just telling you the facts.
>
> And you are wrong

This is just ridiculous.  You are defining away facts just because they
don't fit your view.

> latest Make does not break reasonably old kernel builds such as
> v2.6.30.

$ git tag --contains 3c955b4 | head -1
v2.6.36

Andreas.

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