linux-kernel - Re: 4.14.9 doesn't boot (regression)

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Date:   Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:04:40 +0300
From:   Alexander Tsoy <alexander@...y.me>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: 4.14.9 doesn't boot (regression)

В Пт, 29/12/2017 в 13:39 -0800, Linus Torvalds пишет:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Yeah, other reporters of this have used gcc-6.4.0 too.
> > 
> > But there's been some muddying of the waters there too - changing
> > compilers have fixed it for some cases, but there's at least one
> > report that a kernel build with gcc-7.2.0 still had the issue (and
> > another that said it didn't).
> 
> Side note: I'm not convinced that we will reliably catch a compiler
> version change in our dependency analysis, so it's probably best to
> "make clean" between switching compilers to make sure that you don't
> have old object files with the old compiler.

I did "make clean" after changing compiler flags.