From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763424AbYDUQ2T (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:28:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754610AbYDUQ2K (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:28:10 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:64917 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750900AbYDUQ2J (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:28:09 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:26:48 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: David Miller Cc: mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [bug] build failures, git trees Message-Id: <20080421092648.943a871b.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20080421.015837.35795810.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20080419103942.GA13599@elte.hu> <20080419.040945.13369499.davem@davemloft.net> <20080421082254.GA2522@elte.hu> <20080421.015837.35795810.davem@davemloft.net> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:58:37 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > If you really cared, you would run your randconfig system on, for > example, the linux-next and -mm trees, which I've specifically > suggested and you've specifically ignored. And there is no > coincidence to that. I do randconfigs on -mm and linux-next. I report most* of the build problems ... and as far as I can tell, they are mostly ignored (especially in linux-next). *: I don't report Voyager/Visual WS/NUMA-Q build errors. Maybe they will just disappear one day. I also don't report drivers/media/ build errors. They are too easy to reproduce. :( IMO having -mm and linux-next is a diluting factor+. They dilute both build and boot testing of the other one and of mainline -rcs. Yes, they have their purposes, but it would be Very Good if we could get to the point of having -mm built on top of linux-next (e.g.) instead of it just being a separate tree. +: Yes, there are other diluting factors, like having over 100 git trees that someone may potentially request testing of. --- ~Randy