Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755909Ab1CNMzn (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:55:43 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:30404 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755770Ab1CNMzk (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:55:40 -0400 From: Andreas Schwab To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Pekka Enberg , Jan Beulich , "H.J. Lu" , binutils@sourceware.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Alan Modra Subject: Re: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning] 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> <20110314121321.GE23257@elte.hu> X-Yow: CHUBBY CHECKER owns my BUILDING! Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:55:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20110314121321.GE23257@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:13:21 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1322 Lines: 43 Ingo Molnar writes: > * Andreas Schwab wrote: > >> Pekka Enberg writes: >> >> > Hi Andreas, >> > >> > Pekka Enberg writes: >> >>> So what do you suggest that testers who want to, say, build old Linux >> >>> kernel versions with new binutils do? >> > >> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> >> The same that testers have to do in order to build old Linux kernel >> >> versions with current versions of make. >> > >> > Are you saying it's OK to screw over binutils users because GNU Make >> > did that too? >> >> I'm just telling you the facts. > > And you are wrong This is just ridiculous. You are defining away facts just because they don't fit your view. > latest Make does not break reasonably old kernel builds such as > v2.6.30. $ git tag --contains 3c955b4 | head -1 v2.6.36 Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@redhat.com GPG Key fingerprint = D4E8 DBE3 3813 BB5D FA84 5EC7 45C6 250E 6F00 984E "And now for something completely different." -- 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/