Re: + recordmcount-stfu.patch added to -mm tree

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 09:17 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> 
> > 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. [...]
> 
> My point was that by printing a warning 1000000000000000000000000000 
> times per build we effectively force them, by making life unpleasant.

Ingo,

It was a joke (as the ;-) was added to express that). I sent a patch to
fix it (in my first email). I will be making a better patch next week.

-- Steve