From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastian Hecht Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 14:00:12 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/10] sh_flctl hardware ECC mode cleanup Message-Id: List-Id: References: <1335951710-9390-1-git-send-email-hechtb@gmail.com> <1335955122.10293.39.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> <1335960145.10293.48.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> <1335966905.10293.59.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1335966905.10293.59.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: dedekind1@gmail.com Cc: Magnus Damm , Brian Norris , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Laurent Pichart , linux-sh@vger.kernel.org 2012/5/2 Artem Bityutskiy : > On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 15:41 +0200, Bastian Hecht wrote: >> Ok I'm slowly but surely fighting my way through it. Though I want to >> add an advisor here: >> Don't do this on your crappy laptop like I do. I guess I will move to >> my 8Gb RAM desktop machine for this in the future ;) > > Yeah, I run it on a powerful PC. I need to update the README file - but > if you send a patch - will be appreciated. I assumed people to be smarter than me and instantly realize that a compile-test is resource intensive, so I'm unsure if this is necessary. >> There's only 1 thing I don't completely grasp: you pass a target path >> to aiaiai/test-patchset and a working tree. I didn't manage to get it >> take the l2_mackerel_defconfig from one and compile the patches on top >> of the other. > > Yeah, this is in my TODO list to teach aiaiai to take defconfig files > which are not part of the tree. So you basically need to copy the > l2-mackerel_defconfig file to your tree and commit it, so that the > defconfig is part of the git tree you are testing against. > > But I want to teach test-patchset to accept just stand-along defconfig > files. > > The reason it is implemented the way it is implemented because it was > originally done for an internal project where we have a couple of > defconfigs which are part of the project tree. > >> =A0So I simply copied the defconfig to my kernel dir and >> ran the command manually. > > You should also commit it, of course. Because the way aiaiai works it > first clones your tree and then work with the clone. This is done to > make sure your tree is preserved intact. > Ok, then I completely understood the concept. In fact I did commit the defconfig after I used verbose output and saw the clones of the trees. But I must admit that I'm still struggling to get the same warnings from your post. But I'll manage I guess. > -- > Best Regards, > Artem Bityutskiy