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DateWed, 2 Apr 2008 21:54:16 +0300
FromAdrian Bunk <>
SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.25-rc8
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On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 07:50:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:


On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:
Linus Torvalds writes:

I think the dirstat continues to be fairly informative, with arch/ and drivers dominating as usual. And within arch, a fair amount of the line noise are all those defconfigs. I wish we had some saner way of handling that

We (the arch maintainers) could try to do the bulk of the defconfig updates at about -rc2 or -rc3 time, if you'd prefer.

Well, that part isn't the one that I think is bothersome - I just wonder if the whole "defconfig" mess is worth keeping with the kernel at _all_. ...

I have a trivial script that does "build all defconfigs", and it has resulted in me reporting and fixing dozens of bugs in 2.6.25 (and some regressions in gcc 4.3).

And I use it for verifying that patches don't break the compilation.
Different to randconfig builds the defconfigs allow me to cover most reasonable configurations with a script that takes only one day to run.
Linus

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Adrian

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