Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] build: disable building kernel subsystem by default.

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] build: disable building kernel 
subsystem by default."):
> On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 12:22 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > This will break the test system's build of the ancient 2.6.18 kernels.
> > Everything else will be fine.  How about I just drop those ?
> 
> Or you could safely add "--enable-kernels" to your existing runes (won't
> harm the current tree).

Yes.  I'm more inclined to drop the shonky build-via-xen thing though.
The 2.6.18 tests haven't shown us anything interesting for a very long
time.

> However the fact that we need to frotz with the test system at all
> suggests to me that this change is not 4.3 material at this stage.

Perhaps.

> > We should probably retain buildconfigs/enable-xen-config and the
> > things it depends on.  At the moment the test system uses that as part
> > of its arrangements for generating the kernel config - although
> > looking at what osstest does it does seem like the settings in
> > buildconfigs may be a bit out of date.
> 
> enable-xen-config stopped getting updated (I'd forgotten it even
> existed) while we were still using Jeremy's pvops 2.6.32 branch I think,
> it almost certainly hasn't kept up with upstream branches.

Perhaps I should transpose its contents into the test system, which
already has a bunch of things it knows to add that enable-xen-config
doesn't.

Ian.

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