Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:21:36 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] docsrc: build Documentation/ sources |
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> > > > With the current approach we have much better build coverage. > > All "allyesconfig" and "allmodconfig" builds will do the test > > builds which is a good think. > > If we introduce "make docsrc" then almost only Randy will do the > > test builds and report the breakage - which is not good. > > Well, i don't see anymore people than Randy doing > > CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC=1 make ...
One such example is: http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/linux-next
Here the all*config will do the build test of the documentation and Stephen will tell if it breaks.
> either so only the other option remains, which means CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC > should be "default y" for more coverage... No - we do not want to set config options to "default y" unless there are _very_ good reasons to do so.
You should check a few of Linus' responses during this merge window if you want more background on this. Sam
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