On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 04:58:55PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 2016-11-04 15:54:27 [+0000], Al Viro wrote: > > Christoph, would you mind rereading what I posted upthread? I *am* aware of > > that clusterfuck, including the Balint's charming games with the reassignments, > > etc. Directly affected by the whole mess, actually. > > Al, I am re-doing the patch with a runtime check for -fno-PIE and > tagging it stable and looking after Ben's fstack protector thingy. > This should allow you to compile maintained stable kernels but it won't > allow you to bisect to prior versions. > I don't see any other way around it. And I don't see any way around severity:important against gcc-6. Unless the policy has changed, "has a major effect on the usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to everyone" still warrants that. And kernel development (including bisects) has, until now, been consdered a normal use of gcc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
