Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 02:41:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 02:41:44 -0500 Received: from are.twiddle.net ([64.81.246.98]:15794 "EHLO are.twiddle.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 02:41:43 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:52:23 -0800 From: Richard Henderson To: Szakacsits Szabolcs Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.63 accesses below %esp (was: Re: ntfs OOPS (2.5.63)) Message-ID: <20030311235223.A30856@twiddle.net> Mail-Followup-To: Szakacsits Szabolcs , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from szaka@sienet.hu on Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:07:26AM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 689 Lines: 16 On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:07:26AM +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > Only way I see is to detect it at build time, BIG warning to the user > of compiler, print a well visible "kernel was built by broken tools" > message at boot time to end users ... You don't have to let things go that far. If you have a test case, then you can run the test case at build time, and have the make actively fail. So the kernel never gets built at all. r~ - 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/