From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:08:25 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708211306560.30176@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070821195433.GE30705@stusta.de>
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> > Bogus warnings should be relatively harmless.
>
> How many kernel developers use such old gcc versions?
It's NOT about "kernel developers".
It's about random people testing kernels.
If we make it harder for people to test kernels, we're going to lose. So
no, I vote for *not* cutting off old gcc versions unless it's absolutely
fatal.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-21 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-21 13:20 2.6.23-rc3-git3 make warnings Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-21 15:07 ` [Git Patch] ACPI: Fix a warning of discarding qualifiers from pointer target type WANG Cong
2007-08-21 15:14 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-08-21 15:18 ` Al Viro
2007-08-21 15:22 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-08-21 15:47 ` Al Viro
2007-08-23 0:59 ` Brown, Len
2007-08-23 1:28 ` Al Viro
2007-08-22 7:57 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-21 16:17 ` 2.6.23-rc3-git3 make warnings WANG Cong
2007-08-21 16:44 ` Greg KH
2007-08-21 16:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-21 16:31 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-08-21 17:35 ` RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0 Adrian Bunk
2007-08-21 17:54 ` Russell King
2007-08-21 18:14 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-08-21 18:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-22 5:48 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-21 18:25 ` Chris Wedgwood
2007-08-21 20:41 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-08-21 20:56 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-21 21:01 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-08-22 6:59 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2007-08-22 18:15 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-08-21 19:19 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-21 19:54 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-21 20:07 ` [RFC][PATCH] introduce TASK_SIZE_OF() for all arches Matthew Wilcox
2007-08-21 20:08 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-08-21 20:21 ` RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0 Adrian Bunk
2007-08-21 20:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-22 7:36 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-21 20:49 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-21 21:21 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-21 21:49 ` James Bottomley
2007-08-21 22:09 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-22 0:08 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-22 6:07 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-21 21:41 ` Oliver Pinter
2007-08-22 7:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-22 8:08 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-22 8:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-22 8:42 ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-08-22 8:56 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-22 8:48 ` Martin Michlmayr
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