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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: petkovbb@gmail.com
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] docsrc: build Documentation/ sources
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:21:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080730112136.GA19465@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9ea470500807300155t60732956m67d196f87aed9fa4@mail.gmail.com>

> >
> > With the current approach we have much better build coverage.
> > All "allyesconfig" and "allmodconfig" builds will do the test
> > builds which is a good think.
> > If we introduce "make docsrc" then almost only Randy will do the
> > test builds and report the breakage - which is not good.
> 
> Well, i don't see anymore people than Randy doing
> 
> CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC=1 make ...

One such example is:
http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/linux-next

Here the all*config will do the build test of the
documentation and Stephen will tell if it breaks.

> either so only the other option remains, which means CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC
> should be "default y" for more coverage...
No - we do not want to set config options to "default y" unless
there are _very_ good reasons to do so.

You should check a few of Linus' responses during
this merge window if you want more background on this.
	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-30 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-29 20:05 [PATCH 1/5] docsrc: build Documentation/ sources Randy Dunlap
2008-07-29 20:05 ` [PATCH 2/5] docsrc: fix procfs example Randy Dunlap
2008-07-29 20:05 ` [PATCH 5/5] docsrc: fix getdelays printk formats Randy Dunlap
2008-07-29 20:05 ` [PATCH 4/5] docsrc: fix crc32hash type Randy Dunlap
2008-07-30  6:47   ` Dominik Brodowski
2008-07-30  7:18     ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30  8:40       ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-07-29 20:05 ` [PATCH 3/5] docsrc: fix ifenslave type Randy Dunlap
2008-07-29 20:27 ` [PATCH 1/5] docsrc: build Documentation/ sources Borislav Petkov
2008-07-29 21:10   ` Randy Dunlap
2008-07-30  8:44   ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-07-30  8:55     ` Boris Petkov
2008-07-30 11:21       ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2008-07-30 12:22         ` Boris Petkov

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