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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 02:35:55PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:

    OK, does anybody have good scripts for automatically compiling
    the kernel with many random configurations so we can discover
    bugs like this automagically ?

cd ~/wk/linux/focus/
while true ; do
  mconfig -m random
  make dep clean bzImage
[...]

sort of thing.

mconfig is super fast and simple, and seems to work very reliably.
I'm not sure why more people don't use it.



   --cw
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