Messages in this thread | | | From | Masahiro Yamada <> | Date | Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:40:44 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Documentation/changes: Raise minimum supported binutils version to 2.23 |
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 6:14 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 06:02:02PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > Borislav, > > > > When I forwarded this patch, I fixed up one more line. > > (changes.rst duplicates the same information...) > > > > Please see this. I hope this should be OK. > > https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1214519/ > > Thanks. > > However, I wanted to queue this patch *after* 5.7-rc1 and so that it > lands in 5.8 and so that it has a maximum cycle in testing - well, it is > not really testing but getting more people to see it and have the chance > to complain - and not queue it now. > > I did some searching on distrowatch.com last night and the couple of > distros shipping binutils 2.23 I saw, were already EOL but the search > was not exhaustive.
OK, if we take time for this decision, we can drop 14/16 and 15/16 for now.
> And from looking at your patchset, I think it should get the max time > testing in linux-next too, so that we have time to address any build > issues it might uncover.
Linus was positive to have this for 5.7 https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/21/262
I hope 01-13 will get merged for the next MW. We still have a couple of weeks to test it in -next.
> IMO. > > -- > Regards/Gruss, > Boris. > > https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
-- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
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