From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.com
Subject: Re: Build failure on treeboot-walnut.cg
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:35:15 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071010023515.GA32426@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <470BA6ED.3020504@freescale.com>
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:06:05AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> David Gibson wrote:
>
> > Policy. Compiling everything means build bugs - like this one - can
> > be found by everybody, not just those building for the specific
> > obscure platform.
>
> Is this a new policy? Modules in the kernel are not built unless you want
> them. Even in arch/powerpc/platforms, only the specific platform file I'm
> targeting is built. So I don't really understand why you claim it's normal
> for platform-specific files to be built, regardless of the actual
> platform.
It has been policy as long as we've had the platform+library structure
in arch/powerpc/boot.
> And frankly, I don't like this "policy". Build bugs for 4xx should not
> interfere in my 83xx development. I can't build any kernels now because of
> this bug!
Argue with Paulus.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-10 2:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-25 22:46 Build failure on treeboot-walnut.c Grant Likely
2007-09-26 0:15 ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-08 21:33 ` Timur Tabi
2007-10-09 3:07 ` Build failure on treeboot-walnut.cg David Gibson
2007-10-09 16:06 ` Timur Tabi
2007-10-09 18:52 ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-09 19:14 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-10 2:35 ` David Gibson [this message]
2007-10-11 0:12 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-10-11 20:02 ` Scott Wood
2007-10-09 16:06 ` Scott Wood
2007-10-10 2:35 ` David Gibson
2007-10-09 4:00 ` Build failure on treeboot-walnut.c Grant Likely
2007-10-09 13:30 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-09 14:44 ` Timur Tabi
2007-10-09 14:51 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-10-09 14:51 ` Kumar Gala
2007-10-09 14:54 ` Timur Tabi
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