On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 10:51:44AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 09/12/2015 10:36 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 07:22:39PM +0300, Max Filippov wrote: > >>On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > >><gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 12:56:03PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > >>>>On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:48:59PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: <snip> > >>>> > >>>>cross_compiled with allmodconfig: > >>... > >>>>xtensa - failed > >>> > >>>Are these all new failures? > >> > >>Build log says > >> > >>/home/travis/local/gcc-4.9.0-nolibc/xtensa-linux/bin/xtensa-linux-objcopy: > >>Unable to change endianness of input file(s) > >>make[2]: *** [arch/xtensa/boot/boot-elf/Image.o] Error 1 > >> > >>which looks like misconfigured toolchain. > >But the same script and same toolchain compiles properly for 4.1.7-rc1, > >3.14.52-rc1 and also works for Linus tree (last tested yesterday > >morning). I will see what has changed between 3.10 and 3.14 so that it > >doesnot work for 3.10 but works for 3.14. > > > > The question here is if this is a new failure in 3.10, not if it has been > fixed in a later kernel version. > > For my part I used to report such persistent failures. However, I find it > useless and even confusing to report "yep, still fails", unless there is > a plan to fix it, so I don't do that anymore. Otherwise it is just a waste > of test resources, and it makes it difficult to understand the test summary. > > If I _do_ report such failures, I track down the cause and the fix, and ask > the branch maintainer to apply the necessary patch(es). I am trying to do the same with linux-next now. And as you suggested in another reply just tried a clean build with 3.10.87 and that also failed. I will find out the fix which caused it to build properly for 3.14 for me. regards sudip -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html