On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 11:57:33AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 11:38 AM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > But in the meantime, making the plugins depend on the gcc version some > > > way is certainly better than not doing so. > > > > So currently, the plugins already so that. They require the GCC version > > to be exact. If there's a mismatch, then it fails the OOT module build. > > That's not my experience. > > Yes, the build fails, but it fails not by _rebuilding_, but by failing > with an error. Um, that's what I said. It does not rebuild. It fails with an error. The *proposal* is to rebuild the plugin -- which Masahiro nacked because he claims GCC mismatches aren't supported for OOT builds (plugin or not). Your nack is for a different reason: GCC plugins are second-class citizens. Fair enough... -- Josh
