Re: + recordmcount-stfu.patch added to -mm tree

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Nov 14 2009 - 04:27:39 EST



* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Ingo
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