From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753694Ab0CCAej (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:34:39 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:45628 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751343Ab0CCAeh (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:34:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:34:03 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Dave Airlie cc: Dave Airlie , dri-devel@lists.sf.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Rothwell Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 2 In-Reply-To: <21d7e9971003021548u7509651fyfc875d4e30472486@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <21d7e9971003021527t41268786q302a218ffe410763@mail.gmail.com> <21d7e9971003021548u7509651fyfc875d4e30472486@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Dave Airlie wrote: > > So can we get linux-next builds to build with *your* Kconfig? This should > cut down the amount of crap you see considerably. No. Dave, _think_ about what you're saying. The absolute last thing we want to do is to make it easier for crap to flow through the system. We don't want to make it easier to hide problems. I think we might want to instead extend on the tests that linux-next does. For example, STAGING should generally always compile. There are exceptions - major "change the world" changes where staging drivers might not be updated in as timely a manner as other drivers, but they should be exceptions, not the rule. If a driver really doesn't even compile, it should be marked BROKEN, not STAGING. Linus