* Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:

quoted text
> > > Why is redundant option 'maxsmp' a good idea?
> > 
> > because this way randconfig can trigger it and can configure all the 
> > otherwise randconfig-invisible [or just plain unlikely] numerics and 
> > options up to their max.
> > 
> > I found 2-3 "large box" bugs via that way already.
> 
> Should we improve randconfig to select numeric values when range is 
> given, too?

definitely - but often there are constraints on the numeric value that 
are not spelled out in the Kconfig language. (alignment, granularity, 
etc.)

MAXSMP is still useful, as it would still be rather unlikely for all 
numeric values to go to the max at once. The other idea is that with it 
'make allyesconfig' really puts all build-time limits up to the max.

	Ingo
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