Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754578Ab3IZWGg (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:06:36 -0400 Received: from mail-oa0-f47.google.com ([209.85.219.47]:57122 "EHLO mail-oa0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754164Ab3IZWGd convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:06:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:10:55 -0500 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1 To: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Russell King - ARM Linux , =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= , Andrew Morton , Trivial patch monkey , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Pavel Machek , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , Linus Torvalds , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" In-Reply-To: (from mans@mansr.com on Wed Sep 25 10:52:44 2013) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.11 Message-Id: <1380154255.1974.92@driftwood> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1191 Lines: 27 On 09/25/2013 10:52:44 AM, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: > Rob Landley writes: > > > On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > >> I'd strongly suggest you make your binutils compatible with newer > >> instruction syntax instead of making the kernel more complex. > > > > Meaning I play whack-a-mole as this becomes permission to depend on > > endless new gnuisms just because they're there and nobody else is > > regression testing against them, not because they actually add > anything. > > Since when is assembling the instructions correctly, as specified in > the > arch ref, and not in some other random way a gnuism? If you require current gnome and drop support for older versions (and implicitly all other desktops), people start writing stuff that depends on systemd. It doesn't matter if the feature you abandoned support for the past 10 years of everthing else for wasn't itself provided by systemd. Rob-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/