Re: [PATCH 0/5] linux-yocto: consolidated pull request

[Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 04:44:46PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 17:33 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> > On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 10:58:36AM -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> > > On 2015-05-06 10:42 AM, Martin Jansa wrote:
> > > At this point, all I can say is file a bug. My builds of the same
> > > board work, and the autobuilder show up green.
> > > 
> > > That screams race condition, so I'll look into it from that angle.
> > 
> > I'm considering providing simple old-style recipes for vanilla kernels
> > and using them in my jenkins builds instead linux-yocto, because kernel
> > shouldn't block testing other recipes from meta-oe and other layers as
> > often as linux-yocto does.
> 
> I wasn't aware of linux-yocto breaking that often?

Someone can query http://errors.yoctoproject.org/ database to see how
often (or if it's just me and my builds), unfortunately the full-text
search for "linux-yocto" doesn't provide good overview of issues,
because it shows 350 errors and not all are from linux-yocto recipe.

http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Bitbake_World_Status* pages and status
on e-mail also aren't very accurate because I submit only reports from
relatively success full builds (so I usually skip the builds with failed
kernel, unless it's failing like that for long time).

> I am aware that:
> 
> * we have a race issue with shared_work which we're trying to resolve
>   and its proving tricky to find a patch which doesn't break builds
> 
> * we have the newly reported issue in this thread. FWIW the builders 
>   I've seen are all green
> 
> * there are some warnings in the build which need addressing
> 
> but on the most part I thought we'd caught the serious kernel failures
> in advance of changes hitting master. Are you using master-next or
> master? 

I've used master-next week or two ago (mostly to test bluez4 and python3
changes) and soon after that dropped all linux-yocto related changes
from it assuming that it's indeed cause for the issues I'm seeing, but
it's not and it's still failing with master as well (and my
jenkins/world builds are just small portion of my builds executed
elsewhere where I see similar issues).

> Its its -next, I can understand the problems more as that has been
> unstable recently but then by its nature, it can be. We are rooting out
> problems before master afaict though?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard

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