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Message-ID: <20160119094543.GC15071@pd.tnic>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:45:43 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com>,
	Thomas Voegtle <tv@...96.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y (was: Re: [RFC PATCH]
 x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during oldconfig)

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 09:54:12AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> The key point is that I'd like "naively configured" kernels to work on
> just about any Linux distro that allow kernel testing

Vehemently yes!

This is magnitudes more important than having a couple of passive
kilobytes dangling in the kernel image.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
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