From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:35:15 +1000 From: David Gibson To: Timur Tabi Subject: Re: Build failure on treeboot-walnut.cg Message-ID: <20071010023515.GA32426@localhost.localdomain> References: <470AA224.7050709@freescale.com> <20071009030729.GI12499@localhost.localdomain> <470BA6ED.3020504@freescale.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <470BA6ED.3020504@freescale.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson