linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc8

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Date:	Wed, 2 Apr 2008 21:54:16 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc8

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 07:50:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds writes:
> > 
> > > I think the dirstat continues to be fairly informative, with arch/ and 
> > > drivers dominating as usual. And within arch, a fair amount of the line 
> > > noise are all those defconfigs. I wish we had some saner way of handling 
> > > that
> > 
> > We (the arch maintainers) could try to do the bulk of the defconfig
> > updates at about -rc2 or -rc3 time, if you'd prefer.
> 
> Well, that part isn't the one that I think is bothersome - I just wonder 
> if the whole "defconfig" mess is worth keeping with the kernel at _all_.
>...

I have a trivial script that does "build all defconfigs", and it has 
resulted in me reporting and fixing dozens of bugs in 2.6.25
(and some regressions in gcc 4.3).

And I use it for verifying that patches don't break the compilation.

Different to randconfig builds the defconfigs allow me to cover most 
reasonable configurations with a script that takes only one day to run.

> 		Linus

cu
Adrian

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