Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:12:24 -0800 (PST) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.15-mm2: alpha broken |
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:19:30AM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Paul Jackson wrote: > > > > > Adrian wrote: > > > > This is the amout of testing I can afford. > > > > > > It sounds to me like you are saying that a minute of your time is > > > more valuable than a minute of each of several other peoples time. > > > > > > The only two people I gladly accept that argument from are Linus > > > and Andrew. > > > > > > For the rest of us, it is important to minimize the total workload > > > of all us combined, not to optimize our individual output. > > > > > > What you don't test, several others of us get to test. Only its often > > > more work, for -each- of us, as we each have to figure out which of > > > 1000 patches caused the breakage. > > > > I don't find building cross-toolchains quite as easy as Al does, > > so I download and build with these (on i386): > > http://developer.osdl.org/dev/plm/cross_compile/ > > as Andrew has also mentioned in the past. > > > > Or one can submit kernel patches for builds to an OSDL > > build machine which does 8 or 9 $ARCH builds. > > This leaves 15 or 16 other architectures for my puny 1,8 GHz CPU. > > And does OSDL fix other people's compile breakages in the latest -mm > before I submit my patches, or am I required to play QA for every > single architecture before I can submit one single patch touching > architecture-independend files?
-ETOOMUCHSARCASM (from someone who also uses sarcasm often)
But seriously, I don't think anyone suggested anything quite as extreme as your question implies.
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