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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:10:46 +0200 From: Arnaud Patard <apatard@...driva.com> To: David Lang <dlang@...italinsight.com> Cc: Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@...skialf.net>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org Subject: Re: automated test? (was Re: Linux 2.6.17.7) David Lang <dlang@...italinsight.com> writes: > On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Andrew de Quincey wrote: > >> On Tuesday 25 July 2006 10:55, Arnaud Patard wrote: >>> Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> writes: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>>> We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.17.7 kernel. >>> >>> Sorry, but doesn't compile if DVB_BUDGET_AV is set :( >>> >>>> Andrew de Quincey: >>>> v4l/dvb: Fix budget-av frontend detection >> >> >> In fact it is just this patch causing the problem: > <SNIP> >> Sorry, I had so much work going on in that area I must have diffed the wrong >> kernel when I created this patch. :( > > is it reasonable to have an aotomated test figure out what config options are > relavent to a patch (or patchset) and test compile all the combinations to catch > this sort of mistake? you'll probably need to find some heuristics which may be quite hard to do. It would be easier imho to use some scripts like this one : http://developer.osdl.org/~cherry/compile/ It's often enough to catch compile failures Arnaud Patard > > David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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