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

From: Russell King
Date: Sat Feb 16 2008 - 03:09:34 EST


On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 03:42:49AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. :^)

Only when I check the kautobuild website - which I've not been doing
regularly since about end of November, and it only covers Linus'
kernels.

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
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