[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/4] configs: atmel: at91sam9260eknf: update defconfig

Alexandre Belloni alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com
Wed Nov 9 10:12:24 UTC 2016


On 09/11/2016 at 12:00:27 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote :
> Hi Alexandre,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 10:52:49AM +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > On 09/11/2016 at 09:36:38 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote :
> > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 07:59:45AM +0100, Ludovic Desroches wrote:
> > > >  # Kernel
> > > >  BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
> > > > -BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
> > > > -BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="3.9.1"
> > > 
> > > For the sake of reproducibility you should set this to the version you tested, 
> > > say, 4.8.6. The same goes for other patches in this series.
> > 
> > I'm not sure this is actually useful because the amount of testing is
> > minimal and it just increases the maintenance burden.
> 
> I don't understand. How would locking a specific kernel version in the 
> defconfig increase maintenance burden? Any tested kernel version would do. We 
> just want to ensure consistent user experience. Otherwise the built kernel 
> will change with the default value of BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION.
> 

Yeah, that's my point. Any kernel version will do and that avoids having
to update it in the defconfig all the time, hence less maintenance. The
previous defconfig has not been building for a while (basically, since
the switch to gcc5).

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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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