Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

Alexey Dobriyan
2008-02-16T00:43:19Z

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:21:21PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:09:43 +0000
> Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > For reference, even _I_ don't build test the entire set of ARM defconfigs -
> > at about 7 minutes a build, 75 defconfigs, that's about 9 hours... I
> > just build those which are important to myself, hope that the others are
> > fine, and rely on kautobuild finding any breakage.
> >
>
> you need a better box ;)
>
> cerfcube_defconfig: 35 seconds
> carmeva_defconfig: 23 seconds
> spitz_defconfig (one of the biggest): 45 seconds
>
> so would a stupid `for i in arch/arm/configs/*' script be sufficient
> coverage?

I do this wildcard together with

yes '' | make ARCH=arm ... oldconfig
make

Sans toolchain issues, it's pretty good -- Russell larts you when some
defconfig becomes broken anyway. :^)