Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761003AbXIKVwY (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:52:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755883AbXIKVwJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:52:09 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:34450 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756769AbXIKVwH (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:52:07 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:51:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andi Kleen cc: Adrian Bunk , Sam Ravnborg , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , LKML Subject: Re: x86 merge - a little feedback In-Reply-To: <200709112234.24155.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20070911201219.GA9674@uranus.ravnborg.org> <200709112138.11247.ak@suse.de> <20070911211422.GU3563@stusta.de> <200709112234.24155.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 923 Lines: 28 On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Will that cause people to compile test both? I have my doubts that > will really work. If people don't compile-test both now, then why would they compile-test things when merged? So no, that's not the point. But at least things like "grep" will work sanely, and people will be *aware* that "Oh, this touches a file that may be used by the other word-size". Right now, we have people changing "i386-only" files that turn out to be used by x86-64 too - through very subtle Makefile things that the person who only looks into the i386 Makefile will never even *see*. THAT is the problem (well, at least part of it). Linus - 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/