Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752575Ab1CNKuq (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:50:46 -0400 Received: from mail-yi0-f46.google.com ([209.85.218.46]:44308 "EHLO mail-yi0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750812Ab1CNKup convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:50:45 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=t7qa4Z9g6roZtre20XpnJs+k4UzC9aUIbOYxDsCXGlvmu+aY2sGMO/QVpfERC8ml0F hh5A9ouDqhc2OQDmrnEjbIYmtzhPSGYU2aG4wg66xEqxLyA1tyb5bLdGM7QYPNymYPtO fLbiCSGLXJRc0SWj96D+pa6gpxIddo/BNg6WY= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110314104131.GG6275@bubble.grove.modra.org> References: <20110311165802.GA3508@intel.com> <4D7A64670200007800035F4C@vpn.id2.novell.com> <4D7DE39302000078000362E6@vpn.id2.novell.com> <20110314095534.GB18058@elte.hu> <20110314104131.GG6275@bubble.grove.modra.org> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:50:44 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: hD3NsGgE4z1xtutr6DULkXhuaw0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning] From: Pekka Enberg 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 Cc: Alan Modra Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1085 Lines: 27 Hi Alan, On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Alan Modra wrote: > 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. So what do you suggest that testers who want to, say, build old Linux kernel versions with new binutils do? Pekka -- 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/