Re: linux-next: origin tree build failure

Stephen Rothwell
2009-01-12T09:24:49Z

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Hi Ingo,

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:05:52 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> Yeah - and that build bug was stupid too - when touching a generic file
> that is called include/linux/cpufreq.h and changing a key data field one
> should at minimum get the idea that it's generic for a reason and should
> start grepping the tree ...
>
> It slipped through because it didnt get caught in build tests because
> cpufreq isnt enabled in the powerpc defconfig.

Which is one of the reasons we have linux-next: "integration testing".
This way not every developer/maintainer has to have/use cross compilers
for every (or even many) non-native (from their point of view)
architectures.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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