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

[Ingo Molnar]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 10:27 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * 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.
> 
> 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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