From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6EA6C433EF for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:12:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1349136AbiCXJOI convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2022 05:14:08 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:37730 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1349131AbiCXJOG (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2022 05:14:06 -0400 Received: from eu-smtp-delivery-151.mimecast.com (eu-smtp-delivery-151.mimecast.com [185.58.86.151]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E79C19D4CE for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2022 02:12:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from AcuMS.aculab.com (156.67.243.121 [156.67.243.121]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384) id uk-mta-229-z9GTultOP9atZ4jagUgkKA-1; Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:12:30 +0000 X-MC-Unique: z9GTultOP9atZ4jagUgkKA-1 Received: from AcuMS.Aculab.com (fd9f:af1c:a25b:0:994c:f5c2:35d6:9b65) by AcuMS.aculab.com (fd9f:af1c:a25b:0:994c:f5c2:35d6:9b65) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1497.32; Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:12:29 +0000 Received: from AcuMS.Aculab.com ([fe80::994c:f5c2:35d6:9b65]) by AcuMS.aculab.com ([fe80::994c:f5c2:35d6:9b65%12]) with mapi id 15.00.1497.033; Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:12:29 +0000 From: David Laight To: 'Ingo Molnar' , Linus Torvalds CC: Borislav Petkov , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Peter Zijlstra , "Will Deacon" , Waiman Long , Boqun Feng , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Subject: RE: [PATCH] x86/config: Make the x86 defconfigs a bit more usable Thread-Topic: [PATCH] x86/config: Make the x86 defconfigs a bit more usable Thread-Index: AQHYP1mN0EoA8+BmEUiTYVhS1CsfSazOPgyw Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:12:29 +0000 Message-ID: <58f4679cb3e3476298ba19f26c47963c@AcuMS.aculab.com> References: In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-GB, en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-ms-exchange-transport-fromentityheader: Hosted x-originating-ip: [10.202.205.107] MIME-Version: 1.0 Authentication-Results: relay.mimecast.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=C51A453 smtp.mailfrom=david.laight@aculab.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: aculab.com Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ingo Molnar > Sent: 24 March 2022 08:31 ... > But beyond the WERROR oversight, bitrot has gotten to defconfig a bit - see > attached patch. My test scripts usually enable these - but it's better to > formalize it. Yes, it would be nice if it booted on a 'typical' PC system. These are a lot less variable than they used to be. But there are a few ethernet drivers and things like USB disk support that are somewhat useful. Typical 'distro' kernels contain a lot of things most people don't need - especially a lot of modules. It'd be nice to have somewhere else to start from. David - Registered Address Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm, Milton Keynes, MK1 1PT, UK Registration No: 1397386 (Wales)