Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753285AbbDINib (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2015 09:38:31 -0400 Received: from a.ns.miles-group.at ([95.130.255.143]:65275 "EHLO radon.swed.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751313AbbDINi2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2015 09:38:28 -0400 Message-ID: <552680D1.8020301@nod.at> Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:38:25 +0200 From: Richard Weinberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chen Gang , realmz6@gmail.com CC: adi-buildroot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] blackfin: Makefile: Skip reloc overflow issue when COMPILE_TEST enabled References: <552599CC.1020405@nod.at> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1293 Lines: 33 Am 09.04.2015 um 15:28 schrieb Chen Gang: > On 4/9/15 05:12, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> Am 08.04.2015 um 23:10 schrieb Chen Gang: >>> >>> After this patch, blackfin can pass allmodconfig building (if we treat >>> it as allmodconfig). And next, I shall try to: >>> >>> - Send all related patches v2 for blackfin kernel within this month. >>> >>> - Fix blackfin gcc/binutils related issues within this month. >> >> All you do is randomly papering over issues to make the allmodconfig build >> somehow proceed. >> This is not the correct way to deal with problems. >> > > Still, for me, it is not a good idea to make a conclusion in discussing. > > For gcc/binutils issues, they are real world issue, they need to be > fixed, next (I shall try to fix them within this month). I leave that up to the blackfin maintainer. IMHO this is wrong, you're not fixing a real world issue, all you do is making allmodconfig somehow proceed by papering over possible real issues which you cannot test as you don't have blackfin hardware. Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/