From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752187AbZKOIRj (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:17:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752013AbZKOIRj (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:17:39 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:47328 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752011AbZKOIRi (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:17:38 -0500 Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:17:36 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Andrew Morton , lihong.hi@gmail.com, LKML Subject: Re: + recordmcount-stfu.patch added to -mm tree Message-ID: <20091115081736.GA29826@elte.hu> References: <200911140356.nAE3utfU001939@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <1258174705.22249.236.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <20091113212645.3956bc85.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1258176822.22249.239.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <20091114092718.GA10969@elte.hu> <1258231467.22249.438.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1258231467.22249.438.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 10:27 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Steven Rostedt 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