Re: Why can't Johnny compile?

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

Em Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 11:47:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen escreveu:
> jgarzik@pobox.com (Jeff Garzik)  wrote on 16.11.02 in <3DD5DC77.2010406@pobox.com>:
> 
> > Most of the stuff that doesn't compile (or link) is typically stuff that
> > is lesser used, or never used.  A lot of the don't-compile complaints
> > seem to be vocal-minority type complaints or "why can't I build _every_
> > module in the kernel?" complaints.  Ref allmodconfig, above.
> 
> So maybe there should be a list of config symbols to turn off (preferrably  
> automatically) after allmodconfig or so, a "we know this is broken" list.

Humm, I've been playing with this, if you're willing to add this feature to
kbuild, I'll be happy to provide such a list, even with short explanation
on why it is broken (dma, cli/sti, schedule_task, etc). In fact I'll probably
have it anyway and do a grep -vf...

- Arnaldo