Commit 85f9642e authored by Randy Dunlap's avatar Randy Dunlap Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Documentation: update SubmitChecklist for O=objdir and kconfig testing 



Add build testing using 'O=builddir'.

Add build testing with various kconfig symbols disabled, listing
common ones that are known to cause build problems.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 9b8f77a1

Documentation/SubmitChecklist

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@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ kernel patches. 


2b: Passes allnoconfig, allmodconfig



2c: Builds successfully when using O=builddir



3: Builds on multiple CPU architectures by using local cross-compile tools

   or some other build farm.
@@ -95,3 +97,13 @@ kernel patches. 


25: If any ioctl's are added by the patch, then also update

    Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt.



26: If your modified source code depends on or uses any of the kernel

    APIs or features that are related to the following kconfig symbols,

    then test multiple builds with the related kconfig symbols disabled

    and/or =m (if that option is available) [not all of these at the

    same time, just various/random combinations of them]:



    CONFIG_SMP, CONFIG_SYSFS, CONFIG_PROC_FS, CONFIG_INPUT, CONFIG_PCI,

    CONFIG_BLOCK, CONFIG_PM, CONFIG_HOTPLUG, CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ,

    CONFIG_NET, CONFIG_INET=n (but latter with CONFIG_NET=y)

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