Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759484AbZABTze (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 14:55:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758111AbZABTzU (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 14:55:20 -0500 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:1062 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751692AbZABTzT (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 14:55:19 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 20:54:17 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar , David Miller , 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 Message-ID: <20090102195417.GB5038@1wt.eu> References: <20081231105425.9ccac21d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20081231.141408.60544902.davem@davemloft.net> <20090102115547.GB3027@elte.hu> <20090102174641.GA27287@elte.hu> <20090102180110.GA7425@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 902 Lines: 23 On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:05:47AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > 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. Yes some people (including me) still have them and are happy that there is a check to prevent accidental builds with an inappropriate compiler. Willy -- 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/