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Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 17:27:48 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, Tom Spink <tspink@...il.com>, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: kernel coding style for if ... else which cross #ifdef Adrian Bunk wrote: > > We do not have any serious problems where we actually depend on > randconfig. > > randconfig is nice, but even if it would suddenly become no longer > available we wouldn't have significantely more build breakages in > stable kernels (perhaps a few more in the pathological cornercases > only randconfig hits). > > If this was really "the whole point" it wasn't not worth it. > > Real value would come from getting errors for mistyped kconfig variable > names. > Indeed. However, getting at least compiler coverage across all branches of code is worth something, at least. -hpa -- 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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