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[180.214.232.17]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id g12-20020aa7874c000000b006227c3d5e29sm2486932pfo.16.2023.03.14.21.19.15 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 14 Mar 2023 21:19:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by debian.me (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DD51010619F; Wed, 15 Mar 2023 11:19:12 +0700 (WIB) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 11:19:12 +0700 From: Bagas Sanjaya To: Thorsten Leemhuis , Jonathan Corbet Cc: Randy Dunlap , Lukas Bulwahn , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, regressions@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] docs: describe how to quickly build a trimmed kernel Message-ID: References: <1a788a8e7ba8a2063df08668f565efa832016032.1678021408.git.linux@leemhuis.info> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: regressions@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6JXQS39TaU+pYy8I" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1a788a8e7ba8a2063df08668f565efa832016032.1678021408.git.linux@leemhuis.info> --6JXQS39TaU+pYy8I Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Mar 05, 2023 at 02:04:44PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Add a text explaining how to quickly build a kernel, as that's something > users will often have to do when they want to report an issue or test > proposed fixes. This is a huge and frightening task for quite a few > users these days, as many rely on pre-compiled kernels and have never > built their own. They find help on quite a few websites explaining the > process in various ways, but those howtos often omit important details > or make things too hard for the 'quickly build just for testing' case > that 'localmodconfig' is really useful for. Hence give users something > at hand to guide them, as that makes it easier for them to help with > testing, debugging, and fixing the kernel. >=20 > To keep the complexity at bay, the document explicitly focuses on how to > compile the kernel on commodity distributions running on commodity > hardware. People that deal with less common distributions or hardware > will often know their way around already anyway. >=20 > The text describes a few oddities of Arch and Debian that were found by > the author and a few volunteers that tested the described procedure. > There are likely more such quirks that need to be covered as well as a > few things the author will have missed -- but one has to start > somewhere. >=20 > The document heavily uses anchors and links to them, which makes things > slightly harder to read in the source form. But the intended target > audience is way more likely to read rendered versions of this text on > pages like docs.kernel.org anyway -- and there those anchors and links > allow easy jumps to the reference section and back, which makes the > document a lot easier to work with for the intended target audience. >=20 > Aspects relevant for bisection were left out on purpose, as that is a > related, but in the end different use case. The rough plan is to have a > second document with a similar style to cover bisection. The idea is to > reuse a few bits from this document and link quite often to entries in > the reference section with the help of the anchors in this text. >=20 After considering all reviews, Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya --=20 An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara --6JXQS39TaU+pYy8I Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABYKAB0WIQSSYQ6Cy7oyFNCHrUH2uYlJVVFOowUCZBFHQAAKCRD2uYlJVVFO o9ajAP46+jE2amws3QYz7rVm9TaQ5muRI2YaMJ4c/GT4KLzRVAEA6m/maSAGqCZy Gvl5z2OIXStHbiGJ2xAK3TnXKGilfQQ= =5nof -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6JXQS39TaU+pYy8I--