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SubjectRe: [PATCH] power: make goldfish option have a dependency on goldfish
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 09:17:06PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> [...]
>> > Testing patches takes time, and if I have to do it for all bunch of
>> > different machines and architectures, it becomes mess and unmanageable. In
>>
>> So, you actually want my change then -- you do not want to test for
>> goldfish power issues unless goldfish is selected. This is how I see
>> the situation.
>
> No, I want to cover as much as possible code in one go. This is not 'all
> or nothing' thing, plus I can't test whether the driver actually works,
> but testing that it compiles is a great deal, because quite often patches
> just don't compile. :-)

Indeed, I agree. I also want more build coverage.

BTW, sometimes I think our reviews are better in catching logical errors than
build/configuration errors. As soon as you fix the build, it just works ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds


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