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SubjectRe: Building 100 kernels; we suck at dependencies and drown in warnings
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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