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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:46:32 -0700
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Subject: Re: kbuild: Fail if gold linker is detected
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 11:13 AM Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Then please make this a bit more apparent, such as:
>
>  "The gold linker has known issues of failing the build in random
>   but also in more predictible ways."

Maybe even mention a couple of particular known failure cases.

Just in case somebody decides to start up active gold development
again, and actually look at cases it fails at...

               Linus