Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:17:36 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: + recordmcount-stfu.patch added to -mm tree |
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* 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
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