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Subject: Re: test suite? 
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From: Cliff White <cliffw@osdl.org>
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> 
>   i've noticed references to "test suites" for kernels, but
> is there any one-step convenient way to select every possible
> option for test-compiling a new kernel, just to see if it builds?
> perhaps an "everything" option?
> 
>   and, related to that, should such a kernel theoretically
> work?  as in, are there any options that would be mutually
> exclusive that would cause such a build to fail?
> 
> still thinking about reorganizing the overall option structure,
> rday

The OSDL's patch lifecycle manager (http://www.osdl.org/cgi-bin/plm ) 
does something like this. It does a series of builds include a few that 
select most every option. So you could toss the patch into PLM and look at
the results of those test compiles.  In particular, the 'Desktop' config
turns on a ton of stuff ( and almost always fails ;)
We also do a 'regress' build, where we do 'make defconfig' and 
'make allmodconfig' and count the errors.

I don't think we have any more detailed docs, but the test report does include
the .config files we run.
cliffw

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