On 11/14/2016 12:36 PM, Paul Bolle wrote: > On Mon, 2016-11-14 at 14:47 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: >> You keep saying things like that, but I honestly have lost all context >> of what you are actually wanting to change here and why. > > My overall goals are pretty vague, so I suppose my objections are pretty vague > too. My goals for this series are pretty clear, however > > And as far as this series is concerned: only patch 3/5 is controversial, > right? > >> Could you start with a summary email of the workflow you are desiring, >> with some examples perhaps? That would be helpful. > > Well, hmm. I guess there are three kind of reasons to build the kernel rpm > locally. > > (If none of these reasons make sense, or, even worse, you suspect almost no > one is actually building the kernel rpm locally in the first place we might as > well stop this discussion right here. In that case I'm inclined to take "_we_ > don't care" as a reasonable objection to any patches I submit.) > > 1) Rebuilding a minimal set of the kernel packages as quickly, basically, etc. > as possible. Probably to test the stack of local patches one has. That's what > I do. It requires "--with vanilla" and a few "--without" rpmbuild flags. > > 2) Rebuilding the entire set of kernel packages for your local architecture, > with all Fedora specific patches, etc. Probably also to test some local > patches. I never do that. > > 3) Play Fauxdora and rebuild all kernel packages for all supported > architectures. I never do that, and can't imagine I'll ever want to do that. > > Anyhow, my sort of, kind a goal is to make 1) as easy as possible. Does this > clarify things a bit?
These are all fine reasons and motivations but I'm not seeing the benefit of this patch specifically. The cost to generate a few extra arch configs is negligible compared to the actual time spent building the kernel. Do you have numbers showing how much your build time is sped up? > > > Paul Bolle Thanks, Laura _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
