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

Steven Rostedt
2009-11-14T20:44:30Z

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. The patch I posted gave a way to disable that
warning.

But I agree with Andrew, the correct approach is to have it warn just
once. The posted patch was just an easier approach.

-- Steve