From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755951Ab0IWR35 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:29:57 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([72.52.115.56]:50464 "HELO xenotime.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755813Ab0IWR34 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:29:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:29:51 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Andrew Morton , Greg KH , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Anton Blanchard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: mmotm 2010-09-22 - build error in drivers/staging/zram Message-Id: <20100923102951.af83812d.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20100923160423.06c5bf34.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> References: <201009222343.o8MNh9Mp023931@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <56264.1285212366@localhost> <20100922204305.2fdc5b66.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100923042134.GA29818@kroah.com> <20100922212653.6f55104c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100923160423.06c5bf34.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:04:23 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:26:53 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ooh, intentional dumbness! > > :-) > > > What was the reasoning? > > It was done when the staging stuff was added to linux-next - otherwise my > builds (and many others) would fail most of the time (it may be better > now, but at the beginning, there was a lot of mess in staging). There is still a lot of mess there. Probably best to leave the kconfig as is for now, for the benefit of linux-next. > The reasoning is that build failures in staging should in no way hold up > the rest of our development. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***