Hi Ingo, On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:32:14 +0100 Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote: > > * Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It slipped through because it didnt get caught in build tests because > > > cpufreq isnt enabled in the powerpc defconfig. > > > > Which is one of the reasons we have linux-next: "integration testing". > > Build bugs slipped through that net too in the past.
Of course they have. > And we dont really want developers and maintainers to rely on an external > middle man facility to be able to submit patches. So the best method is to > make the defconfigs good enough to catch everyday build bugs. Random > testing and linux-next can then catch the weird special cases as well. linux-next is merely a tool - it can't catch anything if you don't use it. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell [email protected] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
pgp96aB4G9ond.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
