Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 10:05:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       rdreier@cisco.com, ian.campbell@citrix.com,
       jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com, deller@gmx.de, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
       linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       kyle@mcmartin.ca, randolph@tausq.org, sam@ravnborg.org,
       dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Disallow GCC 4.1.0 / 4.1.1
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On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> So what i tried to point out that your patch causes a regression here - 
> we dont filter out gcc 3.0/3.1 out anymore.

What I tried to tell you was that we don't care - nobody can have it 
anyway. If somebody tried to compile the kernel with it, we've already 
refused for the last 2+ years. So there are no old users out there. And 
there certainly aren't any new ones.

			Linus
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