Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:43:00 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: Building 100 kernels; we suck at dependencies and drown in warnings |
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 05:21:17PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I just sat down and build 100 kernels (2.6.16-rc4-mm2 kernels to be exact) > > 95 kernels were build with 'make randconfig'. > 1 kernel was build with the config I normally use for my own box. > 1 kernel was build from 'make defconfig'. > 1 kernel was build from 'make allmodconfig'. > 1 kernel was build from 'make allnoconfig'. > 1 kernel was build from 'make allyesconfig'. > > That was an interresting experience. > > First of all not very many of the kernels actually build correctly and > secondly, if I grep the build logs for warnings I'm swamped. > > Out of 100 kernels 82 failed to build - that's an 18% success rate people, > not very impressive. I would recommed to fix the obvious cases and leave it. Better to concentrate on 'normal' configs. This includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig/defconfig but it certainly does not include a bunch of random configs. Real peoples config is much better for this.
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