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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Voyager phys_cpu_present_map compile error
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:45:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4813DAD5.50509@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080427010614.GX2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> I'm not claiming it was the end of the world if someone accidentally 
> breaks Voyager.
> 
> But Ingo wanted me to stop to sometimes compile test Voyager.
> 

It would be good if "make randconfig" didn't go down this or other 
"secondary" paths.

>> James has offered to fix up Voyager breakage a posteori, and that is the  
>> appropriate action for a niche architecture like this.
> 
> I'm still not getting the point why we should ever wait for James for 
> doing things like
> -       select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
> +       select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB if !X86_VOYAGER
> 
> And the other compile breakages we had recently weren't much worse.
> 
> I fully agree that it makes sense that Voyager problems should not be 
> showstoppers and that James is the one capable and responsible of fixing 
> non-trivial issues.

That's fine, IMHO, just don't require *other* people to worry about it.

	-hpa

      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-27  1:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-21  0:02 Voyager phys_cpu_present_map compile error Adrian Bunk
2008-04-21  8:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-21 12:00   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-21 12:55     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-21 14:10       ` Status of SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) support? Adrian Bunk
2008-04-22  6:19         ` Andrey Panin
2008-04-22 13:29       ` Voyager phys_cpu_present_map compile error Andrew Morton
2008-04-22 15:25         ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-21 13:00     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-21 15:42       ` James Bottomley
2008-04-21 20:03         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-21 23:08           ` James Bottomley
2008-04-21 19:55       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-21 20:03         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-21 20:11           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-21 20:10             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-23  8:53             ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-21 13:27     ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-21 20:14       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-21 21:57         ` James Bottomley
2008-04-25 14:50         ` James Bottomley
2008-04-25 16:17           ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-25 16:33             ` James Bottomley
2008-04-28 17:59               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-28 19:09                 ` James Bottomley
2008-04-21 15:58     ` James Bottomley
2008-04-21 19:51       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-21 20:09         ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-21 20:13           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-21 20:26             ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-21 20:29               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-21 21:02                 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-21 22:31                   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-26  7:43                     ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-27  0:44                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-27  1:06                         ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-27  1:45                           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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