Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754661Ab3IZWYP (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:24:15 -0400 Received: from unicorn.mansr.com ([81.2.72.234]:40936 "EHLO unicorn.mansr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754164Ab3IZWYL convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:24:11 -0400 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= To: Rob Landley Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= , Nicolas Pitre , Russell King - ARM Linux , 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" Subject: Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1 References: <1380154255.1974.92@driftwood> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 23:24:07 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1380154255.1974.92@driftwood> (Rob Landley's message of "Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:10:55 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1350 Lines: 33 Rob Landley writes: > 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. Are you saying current binutils depends on gnome and/or systemd? -- M?ns Rullg?rd mans@mansr.com -- 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/