Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Remove errors building drivers/DRIVERNAME

[Leonardo Bras]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 8:27 PM Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2018, Leonardo Bras wrote:
>
> >
> > Sorry, I was not very clear at my reasons why this change is important,
> > I will try to briefly explain the whole story.
> >
> > Some weeks ago I was trying to solve a task that needed to change some
> > compiling options, build the whole kernel (allyesconfig) and look for
> > errors. The problem was: It would take a long time to build everything
> > in my computer. And many friends with slimmer laptops would take much
> > longer.
> >
>
> It seems to me that you shouldn't need expensive optimization for
> continuous integration. In theory that could make a big difference though
> I admit to no experience of build farms.
>
> Have you looked at ccache? It will save you from having to recompile any
> files not changed.
>
> You could also leverage all of your laptops together using distcc.
>
> HTH.
>
> --

Both ccache and distcc seem very interesting,
I will take my time to study them better as they can solve some situations
I face. Thanks for sharing!

Still, I believe my patchset is relevant, as it would enable people to rebuild
the whole kernel (with build flags changes, for example) at the cost of only
git-pushing the changes to a fork of my Gitlab repo, and waiting 3 hours.

Thanks for helping!