linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 03/13] kbuild: Raise the minimum required binutils version to 2.21

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Date:   Mon, 4 Feb 2019 16:08:03 -0800
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Markus T Metzger <markus.t.metzger@...el.com>,
        Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/13] kbuild: Raise the minimum required binutils
 version to 2.21

On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 18:45:44 -0800 Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 12:54 PM Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@...el.com> wrote:
> >
> > It helps to use some new instructions directly in inline assembly.
> 
> akpm, can you ack this patch?  AFAIK you are the only, or at least
> most vocal, user of ancient userspace to build new kernels.  Are you
> okay with this?

Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

That little initiative got beaten into submission :(