From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Partially revert patch that encloses asm-offset.h numbers in brackets Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:37:26 -0700 Message-ID: <4CC5B246.5070909@zytor.com> References: <4CC5B1A1020000780001EF7C@vpn.id2.novell.com> <20101025140218.5092.74117.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <28707.1288018465@redhat.com> <4CC5B8D3020000780001EFB4@vpn.id2.novell.com> <4CC5A748.6050903@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48659 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755825Ab0JYQhy (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:37:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jan Beulich , Alexander van Heukelum , Ingo Molnar , akpm@linux-foundation.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , David Howells , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/25/2010 09:16 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:50 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> >> As such, the only options I can really think about overriding the sed >> expression for x86 or just saying gcc 2.16.90 or later is required... > > gas, not gcc. But yeah, maybe we can do that. How long has this space > breakage been going on? If it's a "we got a report from this one guy" > kind of thing, then just saying "we don't support old gas versions > because they are too broken" is probably the right thing to do. > > No reason to make for maintenance problems and uglier code if we can > just say "get a newer gas" to a few people. It's not like we haven't > done that with gcc and other tools too. > > Linus The problem is that 2.16 isn't all that old; al lot of the "enterprise" distros still ship it or AFAIK even older versions. 2.6.90 which I *think* is the first fixed version dates from April 2005, so is currently 5 years old; maybe that is within reason to kill off. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.