Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Jan 2009 20:54:17 +0100 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Disallow GCC 4.1.0 / 4.1.1 |
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On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:05:47AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > 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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