From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD12E138369 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 12:16:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E885821C09F; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 12:15:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from postler.lichtfels.com (postler.lichtfels.com [78.46.92.195]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0510B21C00B for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 12:14:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by postler.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE14137C0 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 13:14:41 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=xunil.at; s=mailout; t=1357647281; bh=IFFt6A6SNiZCc7wT2vqBC8EaLNQv31AcYafJ0+3D1WQ=; h=Date:From:Reply-To:To:Subject; b=fQge7COTsPjki1BqnIqrHGeOq28IuMacdRI9S5KsDpd3LLS6r0OgmelH4hdc9nu/y sA0JbLtJqGHNhWsadM2hpYjVG4pWvAIhI/z90KZPiljH4MdSD8wn0dP+8XaKS1psBe VwQr5N2VgCNlt5v5neQc8rCwQP6+Www30ehcFSts= Received: from postler.lichtfels.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (postler.lichtfels.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with LMTP id 11154-08 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 13:14:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from hiro.oops.intern (unknown [IPv6:2001:15c0:65ff:86dc:bcd2:b3c2:c77f:c4fc]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by postler.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8264B137BE for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 13:14:39 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=xunil.at; s=mailout; t=1357647279; bh=IFFt6A6SNiZCc7wT2vqBC8EaLNQv31AcYafJ0+3D1WQ=; h=Date:From:Reply-To:To:Subject; b=xGhtohZ+bz1l/ftR6aCoeV7iVRnA5Yi+5mDbFderVVxg8GMPYFzJjrvpjVDmLP5tx 1waEAvi2Uno6fkDyNdNVKf4RrMR/00Both+JCLuxtoZP5hPY5GUP+fajwgXKimwVzV FqtzTHD3TCruMMr/51gvz9adbjB/QQzfC/0EJYKA= Message-ID: <50EC0D98.6070104@xunil.at> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:14:16 +0100 From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" Organization: oops! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Testing new kernels - saving dumps / strip down kernel options X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.2c X-Archives-Salt: 2c61f817-d273-4170-a439-d805dfc0ab4b X-Archives-Hash: 902ace11bdbd8be219c4ad01a929ce97 I recently pulled in the vanilla linux-kernel-sources via git and compiled my own "daily" kernel to simply test things on my thinkpad. I get kernel crashes and would like to report them back upstream somewhere. * to store the crash messages: Is this still the way to go? http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel_Crash_Dumps Any other method recommended? * should the reports go straight to the lkml-mailinglist? I feel kind of misplaced there, plain stupid user amongst all those kernel-devs ;-) * I remember a thread here where this was discussed already: How do you guys get to your .config for a recent kernel? "make oldconfig" doesn't always work out best, I recall? My kernel config is maintained along for years now and has survived several hardware changes. I don't have any obvious problems but I wonder if I have something in there that is deprecated and might be better thrown out. Does it make sense to take the .config from the gentoo install dvd for example and remove all the stuff I don't have? Maybe still too much enabled options in the end. "make allnoconfig" as a start? allmodconfig ? I'd be happy to hear your opinions. Stefan