Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Nov 2002 04:23:44 -0200 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: Why can't Johnny compile? |
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Em Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:35:59PM -0800, Dan Kegel escreveu: > john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net> wrote: > >On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:58:09PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > >>It'd be nice if people simply tried compiling a patched kernel (all > >>affected modules) before they submitted the patch, I'm betting you'd catch > >>a lot of typos. Also, compiling _everything_, even as a module, at > >>least once before sumbitting the patch would probably help.
> >thats fine if there is an all-compiling kernel release out there. right > >now 2.5-bk is far from it. last i checked allmodconfig (a couple of > >days ago) there was major breakage all over llc, scsi, video, sound, ... > >which kinda masks any breakages you might have introduced.
> Hrmph. Y'know, maybe it's time for us to collectively put our > feet down, get 2.5-linus to the point where everything compiles, > and keep it there. After all, we are supposedly trying to > *stabilize* 2.5. It isn't stable if it doesn't compile...
mmkay, I'm working on the "missing symbols problems with llc in allmodconfig" But cli/sti will take some more time, I think.
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