> Incidentally, I've tried all three of the above on my system, using
> the raw 2.0.35 source tree, and NONE of them compiled without an error
> causing them to crash out.
Maybe the following is a good idea to improve the quality of the kernels:
Have one or more machines doing nothing but compiles on the latest kernel,
using (semi)random configurations (1).
It might even be possible to automate the bugreporting caused by this in a
bug-tracking system that checks if errors in a previous version are fixed
in the new version of the kernel, and maybe even some stats (like what
parts contain the most problems).
If the major kernel-people (Linus, Alan, DavidM etc) think this is a good
idea, I'm willing to put some time into this....
Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
(1) Mozilla uses a similar approach, where patches are accepted only when
the beast compiles.
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