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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] kconfig: streamline distro configs for testers
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> btw., the way i tested this in the past (and which i dont have time 
> to test right now) is that i took a plain Fedora box with a regular 
> rpm kernel booted up and typed:
> 
> 	make localyesconfig
> 
> and built it and then 1) checked the size of the .config (it should 
> be much smaller than allyesconfig) and 2) tried to boot the 
> resulting bzImage.

Did you check the size without the # comments?

> 
> It either didnt boot in the past, or had a very large .config. It 
> would be nice if you could check whether it does on a box of yours. 
> (maybe you already did that!)

I went back to your old config and I could not reproduce it. But I'll try 
again with a new kernel rpm, and do the following:

# rpm -Uvh <some new kernel>
# reboot    # to that new kernel
$ git clone <latest-linus.git> linus.git
$ cd linus.git
$ make localyesconfig

and see what happens. Is this a good test for you?

Thanks,

-- Steve