Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [media-submaintainers] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Pull network and Patch Acceptance Consistency

Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-06-20T12:25:08Z

Hi Mark,

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 6:24 PM Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 08:46:19AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Wed, 2019-06-19 at 17:48 +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > It's not automatic though, if it depends on a Kconfig option that is
> > > disabled by default. The built bots can enable it, while users would
> > > ignore it. That being said, having it as a per-tree build bot option
> > > should work as well.
>
> > I really don't think well made build bots would enable this. The
> > problem with -Werror is it's single threaded on the first problem.
> > What a generic build bot wants to do is compile the entire tree and
> > then diff the output to find the additional warnings for everything. I
> > could see a tree specific build bot being more interested (until the
> > build fails on an unrelated subsystem).
>
> If you're doing build coverage you can always use make -k and still
> build everything but yeah.

While that does allow building most individual components, you will
fail to catch link errors and section mismatches.

Still better than nothing, of course....

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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