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Message-ID: <20080812131850.GE13910@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:18:50 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>
Cc:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] WATCHDOG: don't auto-grab eurotechwdt.

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:12:12PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> On 12-08-08 14:58, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 11:42:50PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
>
>>> I'm going over a list of drivers that break the boot of randconfig   
>>> kernels by keeping resources busy:
>>> ...
>>
>> WTF?
>>
>> You are expecting randconfig kernels to boot?
>
> 90% does it seems. Ingo has been using it as part of automated testing  
> for some time now.

Please define "boot".

E.g. for your harddisk driver alone the probability of not having it 
included in a randconfig kernel is definitely > 10%.

Same goes for the network driver.

...

> Rene.

cu
Adrian

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