[PATCH] ARM: Blacklist GCC 4.8.0 to GCC 4.8.2 - PR58854

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sun Oct 19 11:51:18 PDT 2014


On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 08:55:14AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2014 2:56 AM, "Russell King - ARM Linux" <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > Right, with the test fixed (&& instead of ||), I've just pushed it out
> > this morning, and received the results from Olof's kernel builder,
> > which shows that he's using a gcc 4.8.x version which gets caught by
> > the test.
> >
> > I think Olof needs to do something about his gcc version there.
> 
> ... or maybe you could just add a "I have a working compiler" config option
> override to show people to say "I have one of the affected versions, but my
> compiler has the fix"?

Does that work for things like allnoconfig and randconfig?  I guess people
/could/ seed those appropriately, but that seems to be something that Olof
wants to avoid doing.

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