linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] remove 556 unneeded #includes of sched.h

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Message-Id: <20061228161019.b876e10b.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:10:19 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Tim Schmielau <tim@...sik3.uni-rostock.de>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove 556 unneeded #includes of sched.h

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...


> Or alternatively the guy who's running kautobuild needs an amount of
> rather powerful donated hardware to stubstantially increase it's
> throughput.
> 
> Or cross-gcc needs to be optimised to compile faster.
> 
> I don't see any of the above happening, so...

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~Randy
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