On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:37:39 +0100 (CET) Tim Schmielau wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:48:30 +0000 Russell King wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 01:32:46PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:34:38 +0000 Russell King wrote:
> > > > > The whole "all*config" idea on ARM is utterly useless - you can _not_
> > > > > get build coverage that way.
> > > >
> > > > Uh, can J. Random Developer submit patches to the ARM build system
> > > > for testing?
> > >
> > > Given that it takes about 8 to 12 hours to do a build cycle, that's
> > > not practical. The only real solution is for us to accept that
> > > breakage will occur (and be prepared to keep a steady stream of
> > > fixes heading into Linus' tree - which has been ruled out by Linus)
> > > or J. Random Developer has to build a set of affected ARM defconfigs
> > > themselves.
> >
> > I guess I don't get it. Isn't that what we just went thru
> > with the struct nightmare^W work_struct changes?
> > But these header file changes are much simpler and more obvious...
>
> Well, I think it's practical to build all arm configs yourself. I'll do
> that for my sched.h #include changes. It's been less that two hours since
> I started the builds on two cpus and I already got 35 out of 59 configs.
Yep, right, if I already had all of that cross-build stuff setup,
it wouldn't be a big deal. But getting it all setup is a big deal
(to me).
> It's just that one has to be aware of it. Before Russell's post the
> situation on arm seemed so confusing to me that I thought I'd just
> compile allnoconfig, defconfig, allmodconfig and allyesconfig and let the
> arm people figure out the rest.
---
~Randy
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