From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx12.go2.pl ([193.17.41.142]:42517 "EHLO poczta.o2.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750888AbXHVHfU (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:35:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:36:22 +0200 From: Jarek Poplawski Subject: Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0 Message-ID: <20070822073622.GB1684@ff.dom.local> References: <20070821132038.GA22254@ff.dom.local> <20070821093103.3c097d4a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070821173550.GC30705@stusta.de> <20070821191959.GC2642@bingen.suse.de> <20070821195433.GE30705@stusta.de> <20070821202113.GF30705@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Adrian Bunk , Andi Kleen , Randy Dunlap , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:32:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > How many people e.g. test -rc kernels compiled with gcc 3.2? > > How could anybody know? It shouldn't be so hard: a) statistically: by doing some random math with: int number_of_seemingly_gcc3.2_reports_eg_per_rc; int number_of_all_such_reports_eg_per_rc; int estimated_number_of_all_users_or_developers; (or maybe some more...) b) precisely (or even more): by adding proper and often updated announcements, e.g: "drivers/usb/host/ohci-pci.c:202: warning: unused variable `pdev' (BTW, Angelina and Brad will be very suprised this warning is yet possible!!!)" Regards, Jarek P.