Re: linux-next: v4l-dvb tree build failure

From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: v4l-dvb tree build failure
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 04:05:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081108030535.GA14802@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081108095950.259305aa.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 09:59:50AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Harvey,
> 
> On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:43:57 -0800 Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Is it really fair to drop the v4l tree when it was -staging that broke?  I'd humbly
> > suggest that staging be weighted somewhat lower than the other trees.
> 
> There is no staging tree in linux-next, that driver is in Linus' tree.  I
> agree that if there was a staging tree, it would be much lower priority.
> 
> Maybe we need some way to exclude the staging directory from
> all{yes,mod}config builds ...

That is simple to do. Something like:

config STAGING_EXCLUDE_BUILD
	bool "Exclude Staging from the build"

And test for this in the Staging Makefile

When this is set to 'y' then we will not build
the staging tree.

	Sam