Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 29 Dec 2001 16:04:42 -0800 | | From | Larry McVoy <> | | Subject | Re: The direction linux is taking |
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On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 05:59:15PM -0600, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > > > > Is it really true that there are any significant number of patches > > > > submitted that don't even compile? > > > > > > No > > > > OK, so there are no significant numbers of patches that the patchbot will > > eliminate, by your admission. > > Except for the ones that get garbage collected after each new kernel > release WHEN THE VALIDITY OF THE QUEUE IS RECHECKED.
Which is how many? Do you have _any_ data which shows that this is going to do anything? Everything I know says that you're in the 1% area. My experience is perhaps different than yours, but I'd like to know why.
> > So what's the point? What is the problem you have solved? And where's > > the code? This sounds like you have whittled it down to a cgi-script of > > about 100 lines of perl. How about building it and demonstrating the > > usefulness rather than telling us how great it is going to be? > > The original suggestion (about the possibility of compile-testing patches > incrementally) was dependent on kbuild and CML2 being in the kernel > already, but I do have a proof-of-concept for the rest in the works.
Great, so set it up, write a parser that grabs all the patches out of the list, run them through your system, and report back how much it helps. I don't think it will but if it does and you are willing to do the work, more power to you. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - 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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