linux-kernel - Re: mmotm 2010-09-22 - build error in drivers/staging/zram

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Date:	Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:29:51 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmotm 2010-09-22 - build error in drivers/staging/zram

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:04:23 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:26:53 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > ooh, intentional dumbness!
> 
> :-)
> 
> > What was the reasoning?
> 
> It was done when the staging stuff was added to linux-next - otherwise my
> builds (and many others) would fail most of the time (it may be better
> now, but at the beginning, there was a lot of mess in staging).

There is still a lot of mess there.  Probably best to leave the kconfig as is
for now, for the benefit of linux-next.

> The reasoning is that build failures in staging should in no way hold up
> the rest of our development.


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~Randy
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