Re: Why can't Johnny compile?

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>]

Em Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:35:59PM -0800, Dan Kegel escreveu:
> john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net> wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:58:09PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> >>It'd be nice if people simply tried compiling a patched kernel (all
> >>affected modules) before they submitted the patch, I'm betting you'd catch
> >>a lot of typos.  Also, compiling _everything_, even as a module, at
> >>least once before sumbitting the patch would probably help.

> >thats fine if there is an all-compiling kernel release out there.  right
> >now 2.5-bk is far from it.  last i checked allmodconfig (a couple of
> >days ago) there was major breakage all over llc, scsi, video, sound, ...
> >which kinda masks any breakages you might have introduced. 

> Hrmph.  Y'know, maybe it's time for us to collectively put our
> feet down, get 2.5-linus to the point where everything compiles,
> and keep it there.  After all, we are supposedly trying to
> *stabilize* 2.5.  It isn't stable if it doesn't compile...

mmkay, I'm working on the "missing symbols problems with llc in allmodconfig"
But cli/sti will take some more time, I think.

- Arnaldo