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

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On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 9:44 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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,

Applied where? github is 2 weeks behind. kernel.org is 2 weeks behind.

BTW, I am curious to know why the kernel-configs in this repository have
no obvious debug config options.

Aren't you guys testing regularly with lockdep etc? does everyone carry
their own home brewed debug configs like I do [1]?

What do you say about including -debug variants to the maintained
kernel-configs in this repo? or turn on the obvious debugging features
by default?

Amir.

[1] https://github.com/amir73il/xfstests-bld/commit/af76cac689ea726cb8f5b222010b7818a689809b
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