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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:56:07 +0000
From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
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Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: Building 100 kernels; we suck at dependencies and drown in warnings
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Grant Coady wrote:

>On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:21:17 +0100, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> 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'.
>>    
>>
>>That was an interresting experience. 
>>    
>>
>
>Welcome to the club ;)  I gave up make randconfig months ago as 
>there's simply too much noise in there...  There are same errors 
>popping up for months now without resolution, and I lack experience 
>to fix most things I see -- asked akpm once but not grok Andrew's 
>response (months ago).
>  
>
How about introducing an 'overlay' config that is introduced after
randconfig runs?

That gives you the ability to, for example, always set

CONFIG_EMBEDDED=n

Then you can progressivley eliminate some known issues (which is not
what you're trying to find anyway).

David

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