Re: [RFC v1] tree-wide: remove "select FW_LOADER" uses

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> If you want to boot randconfig kernels, create an allrandomconfig file
>> listing all options that must have a certain value:
>>
>> $ cat allrandomconfig
>> CONFIG_EXPERT=n
>> CONFIG_MY_CRITICAL_FEATURE=y
>> ...
>> $
>>
>> and use "make randconfig KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=1".
>
> I do that but does everyone who builds randconfigs? I had to go and look
> what variables Kbuild honors and prep an all.config and yadda yadda...

The ones who just build them probably not (unless they care about a specific
case), which increases build coverage, so that's good.

The ones who boot them probably do, else they'll find out the hard way...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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