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Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 11:00:53 +0100
From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: David Ford <david@linux.com>
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Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink related)
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On 02.03 David Ford wrote:
> How about a simple patch to the top level makefile that checks the gcc
> version then prints a distinct message ..'this compiler hasn't been approved
> for compiling the kernel', sleeping for one second, then continuing on.  This
> solution doesn't stop compiling and makes a visible indicator without forcing
> anything.
> 

Or a config option like CONFIG_TRUSTED_COMPILER, and everyone that wants
can bracket his code in 'if [ $TRUSTED = "y" ] ... fi', so if some driver-fs
fails with untrusted compilers it is just not selectable.

-- 
J.A. Magallon                                                      $> cd pub
mailto:jamagallon@able.es                                          $> more beer

Linux werewolf 2.4.1-ac1 #2 SMP Fri Feb 2 00:19:04 CET 2001 i686

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