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In article <Pine.LNX.4.43.0112291136350.18183-100000@waste.org> you write: >If my understanding of the new kbuild and configure system is correct, >make clean and dep should be largely unnecessary and it should be possible >to build a patchbot that checks for incremental compilability: >for the current kernel release: > unpack tree > build the tree with default options (unprivileged user, obviously) One thing that should not be forgotten is the risk of trojan horses here, in practice the Makefile is a shell script, so to apply any patch and the compile with it would be a bit dangerous. It might be possible to limit the patchbot to only accept code changes, but that might remove most of the benefits. Also, I don't know how much magic one might do with a properly crafted #include statement, such as "#include /etc/passwd" and then the error message will contain the encypted password for root (shadow passwords fix this specific problem, but you get the idea :-) /Christer -- "Just how much can I get away with and still go to heaven?" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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