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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	lihong.hi@gmail.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: + recordmcount-stfu.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:17:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091115081736.GA29826@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1258231467.22249.438.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>


* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 10:27 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 21:26 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Dunno, really.  How many people are running old objdump, and do we 
> > > > want to retard the rate at which the stragglers will upgrade?
> > > 
> > > I guess not, but by printing out a warning 
> > > 1000000000000000000000000000 times per build, it may encourage them to 
> > > upgrade ;-)
> > 
> > If that binutils version is still supported this is not the right 
> > method. People are in their full rights to be at any version within the 
> > supported versions interval, and we should not 'force' them.
> 
> It's not forcing them. [...]

My point was that by printing a warning 1000000000000000000000000000 
times per build we effectively force them, by making life unpleasant.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-15  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200911140356.nAE3utfU001939@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
2009-11-14  4:58 ` + recordmcount-stfu.patch added to -mm tree Steven Rostedt
2009-11-14  5:26   ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-14  5:33     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-11-14  9:27       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-14 20:44         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-11-15  8:17           ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-11-15 15:25             ` Steven Rostedt

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