Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262790AbVBYWsw (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:48:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262791AbVBYWsv (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:48:51 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:63915 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262790AbVBYWsd (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:48:33 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:49:05 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Russell King cc: Paulo Marques , Linux Kernel List , Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: ARM undefined symbols. Again. In-Reply-To: <20050225222720.D27842@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <20050207114359.A32277@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050208194243.GA8505@mars.ravnborg.org> <20050208200501.B3544@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050209104053.A31869@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050213172940.A12469@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <4210A345.6030304@grupopie.com> <20050225194823.A27842@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050225202349.C27842@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050225222720.D27842@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1325 Lines: 32 On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Russell King wrote: > > That's fine until you consider the wide number of machines for ARM, > any of which could have this problem. Fair enough. "ARM" doesn't end up being just one architecture, and that's a good point. > Unless of course, you believe that one person should carry everything, > which is what I feel your above comment is effectively saying. No, let me be the last to argue for centralized Q&A. Doesn't work. I'd rather argue that it's not an issue of trying to get everybody to upgrade and making old versions "not supported". It seems more benign than that, in that it should be sufficient if there were just enough new versions out there, for some arbitrary value of "enough". In particular, it seems downright _wrong_ that an issue like this has been around forever, and nothing has actually been done about the fundamental problem. At some point, "kernel build bandages" are just not worth it any more, if people aren't even trying to actually fix the real issue. And one year of apparently "no progress" smells. Bad. Linus - 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/