Hi!

quoted

Given you're not upgrading your binutils anymore that means
you'll have to apply that patch only once instead of having to
apply it
to every kernel upgrade.

Indeed. Patching my own toolchain isn't really a problem. My
objection was to the Documentation patch telling the world at large
that for all targets, older binutils aren't supported even on x86.
That was worth pushing back against.

I don't indend to use old gcc/binutils versions forever, I just want
to be able to use them until I can replace them with llvm or
similar.

So, what is the proposal? Just ignore the problem and make people
wonder why their arm kernels are not compiling?
								Pavel
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