Re: linux-next: origin tree build failure

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi Ingo,

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:05:52 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yeah - and that build bug was stupid too - when touching a generic file 
> that is called include/linux/cpufreq.h and changing a key data field one 
> should at minimum get the idea that it's generic for a reason and should 
> start grepping the tree ...
> 
> It slipped through because it didnt get caught in build tests because 
> cpufreq isnt enabled in the powerpc defconfig.

Which is one of the reasons we have linux-next: "integration testing".
This way not every developer/maintainer has to have/use cross compilers
for every (or even many) non-native (from their point of view)
architectures.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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