Re: linux-next: origin tree build failure

Stephen Rothwell
2009-06-13T05:06:50Z

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Hi Ingo,

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:11:18 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> But that's axiomatic, isnt it? linux-next build-tests PowerPC as the
> first in the row of tests - so no change that was in linux-next can
> ever cause a build failure on PowerPC, right?

Not really. I build a powerpc ppc64_defconfig and an x86_64 allmodconfig
between merging most trees. At the end of the day, I do the following
builds before releasing linux-next:

powerpc allnoconfig
powerpc64 allnoconfig
powerpc ppc44x_defconfig
powerpc allyesconfig
i386 defconfig
sparc64 defconfig
sparc defconfig

Which clearly doesn't cover all possible configs, but is a start and
catches a lot (the powerpc allyesconfig is only 64 bit).

Then after release, linux-next gets built for a lot of architectures and
configs (see http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/branch/9/). A couple of
people also do randconfig builds which find all sorts of things.

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

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