Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

Russell King
2005-03-05T00:36:28Z

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:48:08PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:22:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > That's now eight architectures I'll compile-test mm kernels on.
> >
> > Cool, but please check whether this produces an error:
> >
> > echo "mov r0, #foo" | arm-linux-as -o /dev/null -
> >
> > you should get:
> > {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> > {standard input}:1: Error: undefined symbol foo used as an immediate value
>
> I did get that.

Great - this will help ensure that any breakage due to that binutils
problem should get caught relatively quickly no matter how it gets in
to either your or Linus' kernel. This is a definite plus. Thanks.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core