From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264296AbUE2OcG (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 10:32:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264277AbUE2OcG (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 10:32:06 -0400 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:50887 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264297AbUE2Obl (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 10:31:41 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 16:31:35 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Francois Romieu Cc: John Bradford , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Recommended compiler version Message-ID: <20040529143135.GR16099@fs.tum.de> References: <20040529111616.A16627@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20040529115238.A17267@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <200405291330.i4TDUhsN000547@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <20040529161247.A19214@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040529161247.A19214@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 04:12:47PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: >... > It makes no sense to religiously recommended 2.95.3 if it is known broken. In my experience, 2.95.3 isn't more broken than the average 3.3 compiler. > If nobody comes with a better approach, I'll simply submit a patch to > remove the 2.95.3 recommendation (+ #error for the driver as suggested by ak). The common solution in the kernel for such issues is to change the code to compile correctly with all supported compilers. This might not be a perfect solution, but otherwise different drivers might require different compiler versions resulting in a chaos. Whether support for gcc 2.95 should be dropped is a discussion for 2.7. > Ueimor cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed