Re: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning]
From: Alan Modra
Date: Mon Mar 14 2011 - 06:41:48 EST
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:55:34AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> The thing is, it is absolutely, breath-takingy incompetent for
kernel developers to write such poor asm! And not notice the error
for 4 years! Oh, and the binutils developers to write such a poor
assembler in the first place. ;-)
Seriously, you are complaining because something is fixed??
> The correct solution is to turn it into a warning as me and others have suggested.
I disagree. The whole world is not the linux kernel. I think HJ is
bending over backwards to even offer a switch that turns the error
into a warning.
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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