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Message-ID: <20061126230951.GB30767@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 26 Nov 2006 23:09:51 +0000
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Build breakage ...

On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 11:05:16PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> Ditto on ARM.  This level of breakage is simply not acceptable soo
> close to a release, and needs the change reverting.
> 
> Note that on ARM, "allmodconfig" is really meaningless since it only
> tests one configuration.  Ditto for the other all*config options.
> kautobuild (or building a range of defconfigs) is the only real way
> to check for breakage on ARM.

BTW, it should be pointed out that ARM has for the last I don't know
how many months been checking the type of "flags" passed into
local_irq_save() and friends...  If a generic solution is adopted
(during the merge phase _only_ please) then the ARM specific version
should probably be removed.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:
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