Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Disallow GCC 4.1.0 / 4.1.1

[Willy Tarreau]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:05:47AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > So what i tried to point out that your patch causes a regression here - 
> > we dont filter out gcc 3.0/3.1 out anymore.
> 
> What I tried to tell you was that we don't care - nobody can have it 
> anyway. If somebody tried to compile the kernel with it, we've already 
> refused for the last 2+ years. So there are no old users out there. And 
> there certainly aren't any new ones.

Yes some people (including me) still have them and are happy that there
is a check to prevent accidental builds with an inappropriate compiler.

Willy

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