From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264247AbUE2Kv5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 06:51:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264251AbUE2Kv4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 06:51:56 -0400 Received: from zero.aec.at ([193.170.194.10]:32774 "EHLO zero.aec.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264247AbUE2Kvz (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 06:51:55 -0400 To: Francois Romieu cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Recommended compiler version References: <218aB-15c-17@gated-at.bofh.it> From: Andi Kleen Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 12:51:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: <218aB-15c-17@gated-at.bofh.it> (Francois Romieu's message of "Sat, 29 May 2004 11:20:09 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Francois Romieu writes: > The linux kernel README and Documentation/CHANGES suggests to use > gcc 2.95.3. These files have not been updated for ages. Is there > a rough consensus regarding the required versions of the different > tools in the buildchain or should one simply submit a patch to remove > the offending files ? I would suggest to just remove them. We're past the state when each new compiler version broke the kernel. Originally that was a lot due to buggy inline assembly etc., but that should be all fleshed out now. > I forgot to mention: 2.95.3 does not compile correctly the 2.6.6 r8169 > driver. Make it an #error then. Better a compile time error than a mysterious malfunction. -Andi