Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753376AbXHUUWT (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:22:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751387AbXHUUWJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:22:09 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:56117 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751026AbXHUUWG (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:22:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:21:13 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andi Kleen , Randy Dunlap , Andrew Morton , Jarek Poplawski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0 Message-ID: <20070821202113.GF30705@stusta.de> References: <20070821132038.GA22254@ff.dom.local> <20070821093103.3c097d4a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070821173550.GC30705@stusta.de> <20070821191959.GC2642@bingen.suse.de> <20070821195433.GE30705@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1061 Lines: 36 On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:08:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > Bogus warnings should be relatively harmless. > > > > How many kernel developers use such old gcc versions? > > It's NOT about "kernel developers". > > It's about random people testing kernels. > > If we make it harder for people to test kernels, we're going to lose. So > no, I vote for *not* cutting off old gcc versions unless it's absolutely > fatal. How many people e.g. test -rc kernels compiled with gcc 3.2? > Linus cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/