From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] Partially revert patch that encloses asm-offset.h numbers in brackets Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:16:00 -0700 Message-ID: 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=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:52776 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751101Ab0JYQQ0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:16:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4CC5A748.6050903@zytor.com> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: "H. Peter Anvin" 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 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