linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next 2/2] kbuild: fix for updated LZ4 tool with the new streaming format

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Date:	Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:34:38 +0100
From:	Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@....com>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
	celinux-dev@...ts.celinuxforum.org,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, hyojun.im@....com,
	chan.jeong@....com, raphael.andy.lee@...il.com,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>,
	Yann Collet <yann.collet.73@...il.com>,
	Chanho Min <chanho.min@....com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next 2/2] kbuild: fix for updated LZ4 tool with the new
 streaming format

Hello,

2013/7/12 Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 04:18:10AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Well y'know, if whining fixed bugs then there would be no problem here
>> at all.
>
> I know. I decided to whine this time and not try to fix it because
> attempting to fix every fallout I'm seeing in the tree with randconfigs
> is a full-time job and the *actual* job doesn't see any progress.
>
> And in all fairness, if someone were reporting an issue against my code,
> I'll try to do my very best to fix it as quickly aas possible, instead
> of ignoring it.
>
> So actually, the right thing to do in such cases is back out half-cooked
> stuff from the tree until it gets fixed. That'll give the authors the
> right incentive. But this is just me.
>
>> This problem came up briefly and I thought it had been adequately
>> addressed. Now a month or two later we find out who are the people who
>> can't be bothered testing -next, but think it terribly important that
>> others do so.
>
> Yeah, if everyone would put their money where their mouth is...

Shall we provide a shell script wrapper for all of these compressor
commands which would test for the utility presence and issue a BIG FAT
WARNING if not, but still create the file not to make the kernel build
fail? I guess we could probably do this in the Makefile directly as
well.
--
Florian
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