On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 02:24:12PM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > 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... Or was it a nack? :-) Reading your message again, I may have misinterpreted. Put simply, should we rebuild plugins when the GCC version changes? -- Josh
