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Re: [RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y

From Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y
Date 2016-01-19 11:00 +0100
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On 2016-01-19 09:20, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> In fact on x86 I'd suggest we go farther than that and add a core set of selects 
> that can be disabled only through a sufficiently scary "I really know I'm doing 
> something utmost weird" (and default disabled) config option.

Agreed.


> From my own randconfig testing I can give a core list of must-have kernel options, 
> without which most distros (Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu, SuSE) won't boot properly:
> 
> +config FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG
> +	bool
> +	default y

You should add a prompt so that the option can be disabled. Or make it
default !EXPERT, to have a single "I know what I'm doing"-type of option.

Michal

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[RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y (was: Re: [RFC PATCH]  x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during oldconfig) Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-01-19 09:30 +0100
  Re: [RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y (was: Re: [RFC PATCH]  x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during oldconfig) Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> - 2016-01-19 09:50 +0100
    Re: [RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y (was: Re: [RFC PATCH]  x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during oldconfig) Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-01-19 10:00 +0100
      Re: [RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y (was: Re: [RFC PATCH]  x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during oldconfig) Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-01-19 10:50 +0100
  Re: [RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y (was: Re: [RFC PATCH]  x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during oldconfig) Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-19 10:10 +0100
    Re: [RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y (was: Re: [RFC PATCH]  x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during oldconfig) Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-01-19 10:20 +0100
  Re: [RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y (was: Re: [RFC PATCH]  x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during oldconfig) Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-01-19 10:50 +0100
  Re: [RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> - 2016-01-19 11:00 +0100
    Re: [RFC] CONFIG_GENERIC_BOOTABLE_CONFIG=y Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-01-19 11:40 +0100
      Re: [RFC] CONFIG_GENERIC_BOOTABLE_CONFIG=y Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-01-19 18:30 +0100
        Re: [RFC] CONFIG_GENERIC_BOOTABLE_CONFIG=y "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2016-01-19 19:00 +0100
  Re: [RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-01-19 13:30 +0100
    Re: [RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> - 2016-01-19 13:50 +0100
      Re: [RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-01-19 14:00 +0100
  Re: [RFC] CONFIG_FORCE_MINIMALLY_SANE_CONFIG=y (was: Re: [RFC PATCH]  x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during oldconfig) "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-01-21 23:10 +0100

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