From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031456Ab0B1HOv (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:14:51 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:47207 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031430Ab0B1HOu (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:14:50 -0500 Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:14:05 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Stephen Rothwell , mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, roland@redhat.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, tglx@linutronix.de, hjl.tools@gmail.com, Andrew Morton , Linus Subject: Re: linux-next requirements Message-ID: <20100228071405.GA14205@elte.hu> References: <20100211195614.886724710@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> <201002271323.14402.rjw@sisk.pl> <20100227124710.GA21164@elte.hu> <201002272007.43042.rjw@sisk.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201002272007.43042.rjw@sisk.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > - and without burdening developers to consider cases they have no good > > ways to test. Why should rare architectures be more important than those > > other rare forms of Linux usage? > > Because the Linus' tree is supposed to build on those architectures. [...] That's not actually true: Linus on multiple occasions has said that only the major architectures (x86, powerpc, ARM and a few others) are 'required' to build and that the others should be left to fail to build and should be _forced to get their act together_. > [...] As long as that's the case, linux-next should build on them too. No, and IMO linux-next is clearly over-interpreting this bit. Linux is not supposed to build on all architectures. Maybe that's a core bit of a misunderstanding (on either my or on sfr's side) and it should be clarified ... Ingo