Re: [RFC] CONFIG_GENERIC_BOOTABLE_CONFIG=y

[Ingo Molnar]

* Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, it sure should be interactive. This was pasted from my automated testing 
that isn't interested in unbootable kernels.

So it should be something like:

	config GENERIC_BOOTABLE_CONFIG
	bool "Enable kernel options that are needed to boot typical Linux distributions"
	default y
	...

(I removed the 'SANE' naming as disabling this option is obviously not 'insane'.)

Thanks,

	Ingo