Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754919Ab3I1Inc (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Sep 2013 04:43:32 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:42867 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752075Ab3I1Ina (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Sep 2013 04:43:30 -0400 Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 10:43:28 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Rob Landley 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" , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , Linus Torvalds , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1 Message-ID: <20130928084328.GA5649@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> References: <1380235709.1974.93@driftwood> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1380235709.1974.93@driftwood> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1076 Lines: 27 Hi! > >Given you're not upgrading your binutils anymore that means > >you'll have to apply that patch only once instead of having to > >apply it > >to every kernel upgrade. > > Indeed. Patching my own toolchain isn't really a problem. My > objection was to the Documentation patch telling the world at large > that for all targets, older binutils aren't supported even on x86. > That was worth pushing back against. > > I don't indend to use old gcc/binutils versions forever, I just want > to be able to use them until I can replace them with llvm or > similar. So, what is the proposal? Just ignore the problem and make people wonder why their arm kernels are not compiling? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/