Re: [Ksummit-discuss] RFC: Kernel tinification - kernel config reduction

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 03:45:07PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:

> > The few allmodconfig/allyesconfig builds on
> > kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/matrix/ are actually not in such a bad shape.
> > Shall more be added?

I can't get that site to load...

> I don't think there are any you could add, at least none which actually build.

arm64 should work most of the time - I've been building it daily and
reporting the results, it's also pretty clear of warnings which is good.
There's a couple of disappointing problems at the minute though.

> arm:allmodconfig was quite useful, but it has been broken since 3.10 or so,
> and I don't think it will ever get fixed.

Why not?

> > You also only build some of the allmodconfigs?

> Never "only". I always also build defconfig, plus at least sometimes a couple
> of additional configurations (if available) to improve coverage of conditional
> functionality.

allnoconfig is interesting too for similar reasons.

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