Re: linux-next requirements

[Ingo Molnar]

* Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> 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
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