linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add rdc321x defconfig file

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Message-ID: <20080225134549.GA4481@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:45:49 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...ecomint.eu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add rdc321x defconfig file

* Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> wrote:

> > so if an arguably sane testing method "only" works on x86 then the 
> > right solution is to fix the other architectures to be sanely 
> > testable too.
> 
> If you want to fix them I won't stop you...
> 
> Until they are fixed I'm staying at using the defconfigs.

As i said it before, it's totally senseless to add zillions of 
defconfigs to x86. The two that are there should be enough for a 
sniff-test - and much more than that has to be done to ensure that a 
patch doesnt break anything. Not even a 100 defconfigs would match 
proper randconfig coverage.

according to one particular arbitrary piece of metrics [1], ~99.15% of 
our testers use x86 - and the oopses collected on kerneloops.org show a 
similar proportion.

> > I've seen architectures that were build-tested for the _first time_ 
> > at around 2.6.24-rc8...
> 
> That can't be true.
> 
> Can you name what architectures you think of and why you think noone 
> tried to compile them before?

sorry, s/build-tested/boot-tested.

there's been only 6 commits to arch/v850 between v2.6.23 and v2.6.24.
None of them seems to suggest that anyone ever tested v850 in the last
year or so.

	Ingo

[1] http://smolt.fedoraproject.org
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