From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264917AbUE2ON0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 10:13:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264894AbUE2ONZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 10:13:25 -0400 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:17879 "EHLO fr.zoreil.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264917AbUE2ONY (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 10:13:24 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 16:12:47 +0200 From: Francois Romieu To: John Bradford Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Recommended compiler version Message-ID: <20040529161247.A19214@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20040529111616.A16627@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20040529115238.A17267@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <200405291330.i4TDUhsN000547@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200405291330.i4TDUhsN000547@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>; from john@grabjohn.com on Sat, May 29, 2004 at 02:30:43PM +0100 X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org John Bradford : [...] > In my opinion, code that doesn't compile with 2.95.3 is broken - 2.95.3 is If you are asking for technical details, please read the thread ending at: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/archive/2004-05/msg00440.html [...] > Basically, 2.95.3 is something of a point of reference, so it only makes > sense to throw it out once we have a new point of reference. It makes no sense to religiously recommended 2.95.3 if it is known broken. 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). -- Ueimor