Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for November 23

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:43:00 -0800

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 03:37:46PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Randy,
> > 
> > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:04:39 -0800 Randy Dunlap <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >> I decided to check on linux-next (only checked x86_64 allmodconfig),
> >> and viola:
> >>
> >> CONFIG_STAGING=y
> >> CONFIG_STAGING_EXCLUDE_BUILD=y
> >>
> >> That is just too helpful.  :(
> > 
> > The Kconfig was deliberately done so that the all{no,yes,mod}config
> > builds don't build the staging stuff.  You need to explictly ask for it.
> > Otherwise I would spend all my time reporting/fixing errors and warnings
> > in linux-next.
> > 
> 
> no, you should just drop it after one build error.

No.  We've been through this before a while ago.  We want the staging
tree in linux-next to deal with merge issues and to help the developers
who are contributing to it.

If you want to take it out of your automated randconfig builds because
it causes you lots of problems, that's fine with me.

thanks,

greg k-h