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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:47:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>
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Subject: automated test? (was Re: Linux 2.6.17.7)
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Andrew de Quincey wrote:

> On Tuesday 25 July 2006 10:55, Arnaud Patard wrote:
>> Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> writes:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.17.7 kernel.
>>
>> Sorry, but doesn't compile if DVB_BUDGET_AV is set :(
>>
>>> Andrew de Quincey:
>>>       v4l/dvb: Fix budget-av frontend detection
>
>
> In fact it is just this patch causing the problem:
<SNIP>
> Sorry, I had so much work going on in that area I must have diffed the wrong
> kernel when I created this patch. :(

is it reasonable to have an aotomated test figure out what config options are 
relavent to a patch (or patchset) and test compile all the combinations to catch 
this sort of mistake?

David Lang