On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 5:17 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2019, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2019, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > > Right. > > > I was able to build with ld.gold > > > > > > So, we can use gold, depending on the kernel configuration. > > > > That's exactly the problem. It breaks with random kernel configurations > > which is not acceptable except for people who know what they are doing. > > > > I'm tired of dealing with half baken fixes and 'regression' reports. Either > > there is an effort to fix the issues with gold like the clang people fix > > their issues or it needs to be disabled. We have a clear statement that > > gold developers have other priorities. > > That said, I'm perfectly happy to move this to x86 and leave it alone for > other architectures, but it does not make sense to me. I did not see opposition from other arch maintainers. > If the gold fans care enough, then we can add something like > CONFIG_I_WANT_TO_USE_GOLD_AND_DEAL_WITH_THE_FALLOUT_MYSELF. Let's apply this and see. If somebody really wants to use gold by his risk, I will consider such a config option. Applied to linux-kbuild. Thanks. -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
