Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST 3/4] Use ts-kernel-build for build-*-oldkern

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 12:12 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH OSSTEST 3/4] Use ts-kernel-build for 
> build-*-oldkern"):
> > instead of using the kernel build integration in xen.git, which is going 
> > away.
> ...
> > Remove the now unused xen and qemu(u) tree/revision stuff from the jobs'
> > runvars. Add the appropriate kconfighow and kimagefile runvars and implement
> > an appropriate kconfighow handler to use the create_config.sh present in 
> > this
> > tree (the xen.git intergration called the same script)
> 
> This is the right way to do what you set out to do, but:
> 
> > I guess these are build tests only, but they sem to only be used in the
> > osstest flights. Not sure if that is deliberate.
> 
> They're in the xen-unstable flights too.

So they are.

> If we're disentangling this
> from xen.git, I think it would arguably be better to drop this
> entirely.  I don't think we want to make a separate push gate for
> 2.6.18 at this stage.

I don't think they are in affect gated today, are they? xen.git doesn't
reference a changeset or tag, it just grabs hg-master.

Also, they are listed in allow.all so they don't block anyway -- I
suppose they are just useful for status.

I expect Jan is the only person who really cares about these trees, lets
see what he thinks...

Ian.


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