From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264560AbUESVUs (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 17:20:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264572AbUESVUs (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 17:20:48 -0400 Received: from amber.ccs.neu.edu ([129.10.116.51]:63624 "EHLO amber.ccs.neu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264560AbUESVUo (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 17:20:44 -0400 Subject: Re: bk-3.2.0 released From: Stan Bubrouski To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <200405192006.i4JK6Hv8004808@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <20040518233238.GC28206@work.bitmover.com> <20040519075128.A19221@infradead.org> <20040519140259.GA18977@work.bitmover.com> <20040519141115.GO1912@lug-owl.de> <20040519141648.GB18977@work.bitmover.com> <20040519142656.GP1912@lug-owl.de> <200405192006.i4JK6Hv8004808@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1085001643.9697.10.camel@duergar> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 17:20:43 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Guys, Honestly this crap is getting very silly even though you are all serious. People announce things on this list all the time that are not really a part of the kernel but affect development, and with the traffic on this list anyways, I don't see how Larry announcing a new release of BitKeeper is offtopic or innappropriate. Furthermore, it seems like any time Larry posts anything not in a thread starting with [patch] or [oops] someone goes off on some political or otherwise rant and its getting really really old. The threads become long and littered with opinions that contribute nothing but someone's $0.2 in a case where it makes no difference at all except to the bandwith the posts complaining about posts wastes. Lighten up I guess is all I'm saying. -sb On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 16:06, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Wed, 19 May 2004 16:26:56 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw said: > > On Wed, 2004-05-19 07:16:48 -0700, Larry McVoy > > wrote in message <20040519141648.GB18977@work.bitmover.com>: > > > new version of a widely used tool is available? If someone posted that > > > there is a new version of gcc available is that off topic? =20 > > > > Yes, it was. Even miscompilation reports are mostly OT, since they > > should go to GCC's bugzilla. > > Given the number of times (it's well past non-zero) we've changed around kernel > source in order to work around a bug in one or another widely-distributed > release of gcc, I think miscompile reports *are* on topic. > > I seem to remember that gcc 3.4 did oddness with inlining strcpy that resulted > in a source tweak to lib/strings.c not too long ago, as just one example... > > And there was the "read/write constraints and registers" warning recently... > > And there was.... you get the idea... >