Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762395AbYBPAYT (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:24:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758359AbYBPAYI (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:24:08 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:45413 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758205AbYBPAYH (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:24:07 -0500 Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:17:12 +0000 From: Russell King To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Andrew Morton , greg@kroah.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, jeff@garzik.org, davem@davemloft.net, arjan@infradead.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-)) Message-ID: <20080216001712.GE31474@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Randy Dunlap , Andrew Morton , greg@kroah.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, jeff@garzik.org, davem@davemloft.net, arjan@infradead.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org References: <47B1CB08.4020101@garzik.org> <20080212174824.GA1919@kroah.com> <20080212191552.GA20883@kroah.com> <20080212204813.GA21650@kroah.com> <20080215232308.GC31474@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20080215153732.a93caec7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080215154724.132ad4f3.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080215154724.132ad4f3.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2031 Lines: 46 On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 03:47:24PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:37:32 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > > I wonder why I didn't see any of this - I build arm allmodconfig at least > > once a week, usually more frequently. Basically, you don't build any of the PXA platforms, which is what was affected. > > So either the offending patches weren't in my pile or arm allmodconfig is > > worse than I thought :( > > > > It really is in arch maintainers' best interest to keep their allmodconfig > > in good shape, for this reason. arm's _isn't_ in good shape: the compile > > fails for several long-standing reasons (eg: no hope of building DRM) and I > > don't think the coverage is very broad either. > > I think that Russell has said that allmodconfig isn't very realistic > for ARM, with its 70+ config files. Nevertheless, having a usable > allmodconfig would be very helpful. Which is quite impossible. I've said all along that all*config is bad news for ARM and folk haven't listened. allmodconfig can (and does) work on some platform configurations such as the one Andrew builds - which will be based on the Versatile platform. However, that doesn't get _any_ of the PXA SoC drivers scattered throughout the tree, the PXA SoC support in arch/arm/mach-pxa, none of the PXA platform support files. If you built an allmodconfig PXA configuration, you'd get those, but you wouldn't get the OMAP SoC drivers, nor the ARM Primecell drivers found on ARMs Integrator, Versatile and Realview platforms and the Cirrus EP93xx SoCs. Nor the Atmel AT91 drivers... and so the list goes on. Each family of platforms are, unfortunately, quite distinct from each other. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: -- 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/