Re: Why can't Johnny compile?

Dan Kegel (dank@kegel.com)
Sat, 16 Nov 2002 16:09:22 -0800


Alan Cox wrote:
>>>Em Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:04:05PM -0500, Jeff Garzik escreveu:
>>>
>>>>About the only thing WRT menuconfig I would be ok with is commenting out
>>>>majorly broken drivers until they are fixed...
>
> Thats basically what "OBSOLETE" is

So how 'bout this:

* mark all drivers that don't compile OBSOLETE. That keeps us from
trying to fix drivers without having hardware to test them.
Anyone with proper hardware is invited to fix the drivers and then
mark them non-OBSOLETE.
* make 'curyesconfig' and 'curmodconfig' compile everything that isn't OBSOLETE
* fix anything left over that keeps 'make curyesconfig'
and 'make curmodconfig' from compiling
* maintainers try to not forward any patches to Linux that
cause 'make curyesconfig' or 'make curmodconfig' not build
* OSDL does nightly 'curyesconfig' and 'curmodconfig builds from
Linus's tree, and mails linux-kernel a link to the build log
along with whether it succeeded or failed

That would give maintainers quick feedback about whether they'd
broken some obscure part of Linus's tree...

- Dan

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