Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:08:48 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>, akpm@osdl.org, adobriyan@gmail.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.15-mm2: alpha broken
Message-ID: <20060113210848.GS29663@stusta.de>
References: <20060107052221.61d0b600.akpm@osdl.org> <20060107210646.GA26124@mipter.zuzino.mipt.ru> <20060107154842.5832af75.akpm@osdl.org> <20060110182422.d26c5d8b.pj@sgi.com> <20060113141154.GL29663@stusta.de> <20060113101054.d62acb0d.pj@sgi.com> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0601131014160.5563@shark.he.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0601131014160.5563@shark.he.net>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 1875
Lines: 51

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:19:30AM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Paul Jackson wrote:
> 
> > Adrian wrote:
> > > This is the amout of testing I can afford.
> >
> > It sounds to me like you are saying that a minute of your time is
> > more valuable than a minute of each of several other peoples time.
> >
> > The only two people I gladly accept that argument from are Linus
> > and Andrew.
> >
> > For the rest of us, it is important to minimize the total workload
> > of all us combined, not to optimize our individual output.
> >
> > What you don't test, several others of us get to test.  Only its often
> > more work, for -each- of us, as we each have to figure out which of
> > 1000 patches caused the breakage.
> 
> I don't find building cross-toolchains quite as easy as Al does,
> so I download and build with these (on i386):
>   http://developer.osdl.org/dev/plm/cross_compile/
> as Andrew has also mentioned in the past.
> 
> Or one can submit kernel patches for builds to an OSDL
> build machine which does 8 or 9 $ARCH builds.

This leaves 15 or 16 other architectures for my puny 1,8 GHz CPU.

And does OSDL fix other people's compile breakages in the latest -mm 
before I submit my patches, or am I required to play QA for every 
single architecture before I can submit one single patch touching 
architecture-independend files?

> ~Randy

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

-
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/