Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751412AbWBZWnN (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:43:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751191AbWBZWnN (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:43:13 -0500 Received: from pasmtp.tele.dk ([193.162.159.95]:30984 "EHLO pasmtp.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751412AbWBZWnM (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:43:12 -0500 Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:43:00 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Jesper Juhl Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Building 100 kernels; we suck at dependencies and drown in warnings Message-ID: <20060226224300.GA8835@mars.ravnborg.org> References: <200602261721.17373.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200602261721.17373.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1260 Lines: 31 On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 05:21:17PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I just sat down and build 100 kernels (2.6.16-rc4-mm2 kernels to be exact) > > 95 kernels were build with 'make randconfig'. > 1 kernel was build with the config I normally use for my own box. > 1 kernel was build from 'make defconfig'. > 1 kernel was build from 'make allmodconfig'. > 1 kernel was build from 'make allnoconfig'. > 1 kernel was build from 'make allyesconfig'. > > That was an interresting experience. > > First of all not very many of the kernels actually build correctly and > secondly, if I grep the build logs for warnings I'm swamped. > > Out of 100 kernels 82 failed to build - that's an 18% success rate people, > not very impressive. I would recommed to fix the obvious cases and leave it. Better to concentrate on 'normal' configs. This includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig/defconfig but it certainly does not include a bunch of random configs. Real peoples config is much better for this. Sam - 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/