linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm

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Date:   Tue, 29 Nov 2016 09:14:46 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
        Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
        Debian kernel maintainers <debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org>,
        "linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> So quite frankly, I don't want to make our kernel sources worse due to
> broken shit tools getting something wrong that we shouldn't even care
> about.

And yes, I'm on binutils 2.26 (with no issues), so it could be that
it's 2.27 that triggers this.

We could make the pr_warn_once() mention "broken binutils?" so that
people know why the warning happens.

           Linus