Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754717Ab3IZWuX (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:50:23 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f181.google.com ([209.85.214.181]:50621 "EHLO mail-ob0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751860Ab3IZWuV convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:50:21 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:50:19 -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: Russell King - ARM Linux , Nicolas Pitre , =?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 15:49:07 2013) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.11 Message-Id: <1380235819.1974.94@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: 1641 Lines: 41 On 09/25/2013 03:49:07 PM, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: > Russell King - ARM Linux writes: > > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:23:06AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > >> On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > >>> It could be as simple as making gas accept an extra argument for > >>> instructions like dsb and just ignoring it. > >> > >> So you prefer I come up with the reversion patches locally and > _not_ > >> send them upstream? > > > > This is a silly attitude. What you're effectively saying is that we > > are never allowed to use any future ARM instructions in any Linux > > kernel because that might break your precious assembler. > > > > I've got news for you. We're *not* going to listen to that > argument. > > > > END OF DISCUSSION (everything else is just a waste of time.) Who am I to argue with capital letters? > I fully agree. Actually, I thought this was an armv5l regression. (My objection was to requiring a newer toolchain for architectures that built fine under the old one. My attention was attracted by the proposed patch to Documentation/changes with a global updated for required binutils version.) I've since had a chance to confirm the armv5 build break I saw was just normal mid-rc1 noise (since fixed) and this set of patches just applies to armv7, which already required a newer binutils, so objection withdrawn. 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/