From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754182Ab0IMR1G (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:27:06 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:52452 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753932Ab0IMR1F (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:27:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4C8E5E97.6070908@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:25:43 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100806 Fedora/3.1.2-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Florian Mickler CC: Peter Zijlstra , x86@kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Russell King , Mike Frysinger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: don't compile with gcc-3.3.3 References: <1284366708-30154-1-git-send-email-florian@mickler.org> <1284367195.2275.29.camel@laptop> <4C8E49B7.7040104@zytor.com> <20100913182105.7463dd99@schatten.dmk.lab> <20100913182838.70aa0964@schatten.dmk.lab> In-Reply-To: <20100913182838.70aa0964@schatten.dmk.lab> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/13/2010 09:28 AM, Florian Mickler wrote: > > What about issuing a warning like > > "gcc 3.3.3 is broken because of bug [bugdescription/url]. > if you know your build is not affected by this bug do: > touch .gcc333bugfixNNNN but please be aware that you are > not supported by the mainline kernel development comunity > if you do" > > and implementing the accompanying logic? > URK. The workload of maintaining that crap would be astonishing, especially for something at the tail end of supportable. I don't think that is even remotely realistic. -hpa