linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: origin tree build failure

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Message-Id: <20090114033120.0333b392.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:31:20 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: origin tree build failure

Hi Ingo,

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:32:14 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> * Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> 
> > > It slipped through because it didnt get caught in build tests because 
> > > cpufreq isnt enabled in the powerpc defconfig.
> > 
> > Which is one of the reasons we have linux-next: "integration testing".
> 
> Build bugs slipped through that net too in the past.

Of course they have.

> And we dont really want developers and maintainers to rely on an external 
> middle man facility to be able to submit patches. So the best method is to 
> make the defconfigs good enough to catch everyday build bugs. Random 
> testing and linux-next can then catch the weird special cases as well.

linux-next is merely a tool - it can't catch anything if you don't use it.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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