Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:56:07 +0000 | From | David Greaves <> | Subject | Re: Building 100 kernels; we suck at dependencies and drown in warnings |
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Grant Coady wrote:
>On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:21:17 +0100, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>Hi everyone, >> >>I just sat down and build 100 kernels (2.6.16-rc4-mm2 kernels to be exact) >> >> 95 kernels were build with 'make randconfig'. >> >> >>That was an interresting experience. >> >> > >Welcome to the club ;) I gave up make randconfig months ago as >there's simply too much noise in there... There are same errors >popping up for months now without resolution, and I lack experience >to fix most things I see -- asked akpm once but not grok Andrew's >response (months ago). > > How about introducing an 'overlay' config that is introduced after randconfig runs?
That gives you the ability to, for example, always set
CONFIG_EMBEDDED=n
Then you can progressivley eliminate some known issues (which is not what you're trying to find anyway).
David
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