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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: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Randy Dunlap 2010-05-23 17:02:30 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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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)