Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752552Ab1CNKlo (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:41:44 -0400 Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:62587 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751713Ab1CNKlm (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:41:42 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; b=BB05a5pPBY4xtlYXZeEpIUo55sXjpmQa1/SQtaRtlYl/L1Wx/T0PY43OTOL5P99hU9 bZtoZjo/h3lWaJZuelxD7n1by6U0O/RuPepHI+iAiGwvc8/rzawvvdOahii47XZqqpqY cTN8y7zhaG9uuk7UtvH/1zVShYqU4Cd3Wn8OU= Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:11:31 +1030 From: Alan Modra To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jan Beulich , "H.J. Lu" , binutils@sourceware.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning] Message-ID: <20110314104131.GG6275@bubble.grove.modra.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ingo Molnar , Jan Beulich , "H.J. Lu" , binutils@sourceware.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner References: <20110311165802.GA3508@intel.com> <4D7A64670200007800035F4C@vpn.id2.novell.com> <4D7DE39302000078000362E6@vpn.id2.novell.com> <20110314095534.GB18058@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110314095534.GB18058@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 889 Lines: 23 On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:55:34AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > The thing is, it is absolutely, breath-takingy incompetent for kernel developers to write such poor asm! And not notice the error for 4 years! Oh, and the binutils developers to write such a poor assembler in the first place. ;-) Seriously, you are complaining because something is fixed?? > The correct solution is to turn it into a warning as me and others have suggested. I disagree. The whole world is not the linux kernel. I think HJ is bending over backwards to even offer a switch that turns the error into a warning. -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM -- 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/