From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
lihong.hi@gmail.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: + recordmcount-stfu.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:44:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1258231467.22249.438.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091114092718.GA10969@elte.hu>
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 10:27 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 21:26 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > > Dunno, really. How many people are running old objdump, and do we
> > > want to retard the rate at which the stragglers will upgrade?
> >
> > I guess not, but by printing out a warning
> > 1000000000000000000000000000 times per build, it may encourage them to
> > upgrade ;-)
>
> If that binutils version is still supported this is not the right
> method. People are in their full rights to be at any version within the
> supported versions interval, and we should not 'force' them.
It's not forcing them. The patch I posted gave a way to disable that
warning.
But I agree with Andrew, the correct approach is to have it warn just
once. The posted patch was just an easier approach.
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-14 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200911140356.nAE3utfU001939@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
2009-11-14 4:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-11-14 5:26 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-14 5:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-11-14 9:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-14 20:44 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2009-11-15 8:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-15 15:25 ` Steven Rostedt
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