From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758738AbYD0BGr (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:06:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751554AbYD0BGk (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:06:40 -0400 Received: from smtp4.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.38]:51421 "EHLO smtp4.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751637AbYD0BGj (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:06:39 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:06:14 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Pavel Machek , Ingo Molnar , James Bottomley , Alexey Starikovskiy , tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Voyager phys_cpu_present_map compile error Message-ID: <20080427010614.GX2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <1208793533.3640.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080421195148.GG8770@elte.hu> <20080421200949.GB2633@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080421201352.GM8770@elte.hu> <20080421202605.GC2633@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080421202919.GA28069@elte.hu> <20080421210232.GD2633@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080421223142.GA18140@elte.hu> <20080426074300.GA3891@ucw.cz> <4813CC6A.6030307@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4813CC6A.6030307@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 05:44:26PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: >> >> I guess Adrian is trying to say: >> >> 'That code is in tree, so it should compile and run. He can't verify >> it runs, but he's trying to make sure it at least compiles.' >> >> For 'normal' users it is not a problem. >> Pavel > > This is fine, except it is an unreasonable request when there are fewer > existing machines than people contributing to this tree. For a lot of > people, compile bandwidth is what is limiting their ability to > contribute. I'm not claiming it was the end of the world if someone accidentally breaks Voyager. But Ingo wanted me to stop to sometimes compile test Voyager. > James has offered to fix up Voyager breakage a posteori, and that is the > appropriate action for a niche architecture like this. I'm still not getting the point why we should ever wait for James for doing things like - select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB + select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB if !X86_VOYAGER And the other compile breakages we had recently weren't much worse. I fully agree that it makes sense that Voyager problems should not be showstoppers and that James is the one capable and responsible of fixing non-trivial issues. > -hpa cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed