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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kbuild: Disallow GCC 4.1.0 / 4.1.1
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:05:47AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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>
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > So what i tried to point out that your patch causes a regression here -
> > we dont filter out gcc 3.0/3.1 out anymore.
>
> What I tried to tell you was that we don't care - nobody can have it
> anyway. If somebody tried to compile the kernel with it, we've already
> refused for the last 2+ years. So there are no old users out there. And
> there certainly aren't any new ones.

Yes some people (including me) still have them and are happy that there
is a check to prevent accidental builds with an inappropriate compiler.

Willy



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