Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757219Ab1CNSE1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:04:27 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:35136 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757174Ab1CNSEZ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:04:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:03:23 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Pekka Enberg Cc: Ingo Molnar , Jan Beulich , "H.J. Lu" , binutils@sourceware.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , Alan Modra Subject: Re: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning] Message-ID: <20110314180323.31785f81@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: 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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.22.0; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-14 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 719 Lines: 17 > > 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? Use an older binutils. It's already the case you can't build old kernels with current gcc and binutils, there have been repeated such events over time and nobody has had too much trouble. Alan -- 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/