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

Ingo Molnar
2009-11-15T08:17:39Z

* 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