Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755349Ab1CNOLZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:11:25 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:29834 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754544Ab1CNOLX (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:11:23 -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: <4D7DE39302000078000362E6@vpn.id2.novell.com> <20110314095534.GB18058@elte.hu> <20110314104131.GG6275@bubble.grove.modra.org> <20110314121321.GE23257@elte.hu> <20110314131729.GB28851@elte.hu> X-Yow: Will it improve my CASH FLOW? Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:43:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20110314131729.GB28851@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:17:29 +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: 1578 Lines: 47 Ingo Molnar writes: > * Andreas Schwab wrote: > >> 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 - latest Make does not break reasonably old kernel builds such >> > as v2.6.30. >> >> This is just ridiculous. >> You are defining away facts just because they don't fit your view. > > No, i actually tried out the latest released Make version (3.82) and it still builds > v2.6.30 fine: That's a very convincing argument. 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/