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
