* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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? hm, i dont remember precisely - but maybe i only considered the size of the file. Your patch would expand everything and then turn off the leafs, leaving a large (but still small ;-) .config in place, right? > > 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? Yes, of course. The whole patch-set is lovely and the sooner we put this upstream the better. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
