Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:45:49 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add rdc321x defconfig file |
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* Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> > so if an arguably sane testing method "only" works on x86 then the > > right solution is to fix the other architectures to be sanely > > testable too. > > If you want to fix them I won't stop you... > > Until they are fixed I'm staying at using the defconfigs.
As i said it before, it's totally senseless to add zillions of defconfigs to x86. The two that are there should be enough for a sniff-test - and much more than that has to be done to ensure that a patch doesnt break anything. Not even a 100 defconfigs would match proper randconfig coverage.
according to one particular arbitrary piece of metrics [1], ~99.15% of our testers use x86 - and the oopses collected on kerneloops.org show a similar proportion.
> > I've seen architectures that were build-tested for the _first time_ > > at around 2.6.24-rc8... > > That can't be true. > > Can you name what architectures you think of and why you think noone > tried to compile them before?
sorry, s/build-tested/boot-tested.
there's been only 6 commits to arch/v850 between v2.6.23 and v2.6.24. None of them seems to suggest that anyone ever tested v850 in the last year or so.
Ingo
[1] http://smolt.fedoraproject.org
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