From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965071AbWD0KQ6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:16:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965076AbWD0KQ6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:16:58 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:63209 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965071AbWD0KQ5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:16:57 -0400 To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.17-rc2-mm1 References: <20060427014141.06b88072.akpm@osdl.org> From: Andi Kleen Date: 27 Apr 2006 12:16:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20060427014141.06b88072.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton writes: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17-rc2/2.6.17-rc2-mm1/ > > > - It took six hours work to get this release building and linking in just a > basic fashion on eight-odd architectures. It's getting out of control. We all appreciate your hard work. > The acphphp driver is still broken and v4l and memory hotplug are, I > suspect, only hanging in there by the skin of their teeth. > > Could patch submitters _please_ be a lot more careful about getting the > Kconfig correct, testing various Kconfig combinations (yes sometimes > people will want to disable your lovely new feature) and just generally > think about these things a bit harder? It isn't rocket science. Is this something that could be automated with some machine power? e.g. every time a patch is added a small cluster could build the patches with some configurations on various architectures and if it doesn't build autoflame the patch submitter. We use this in SUSE for the SUSE kernels and it works quite well. Maybe someone could contribute the build power needed for that. I suppose it could be done by just a few scripts listening to mm-commits? -Andi