Re: [PATCH 1/5] kernel-configs: switch to using defconfigs

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On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 04:32:29PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently, the kernel configs for kvm-xfstests and gce-xfstests are
> difficult to maintain because they are so long.  Fix this by changing
> them to 'defconfig' format, so they only list the non-default settings.
> 
> As documented, there is one additional step introduced when building a
> kernel for the first time: you now must run 'make olddefconfig' after
> copying a defconfig file to .config.  However I think this is an
> acceptable tradeoff for having much more maintainable config files.
> Running 'make olddefconfig' also means that people won't have to answer
> random config questions if they're testing the latest kernel.
> 
> This change was scripted by running 'make savedefconfig' for each config
> within the appropriate source tree (stable/linux-X.X-y).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.  (This patch was 1.4MB, so it would have been
rejected by vger.kernel.org.)

						- Ted
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