Re: + recordmcount-stfu.patch added to -mm tree

Steven Rostedt
2009-11-15T15:25:06Z

On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 09:17 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * 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,

It was a joke (as the ;-) was added to express that). I sent a patch to
fix it (in my first email). I will be making a better patch next week.

-- Steve