Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: + recordmcount-stfu.patch added to -mm tree | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:25:08 -0500 |
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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
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