karmic kernel configuration gotchas...

[Daniel J Blueman]

Since Karmic is now in beta and converged on a near-final kernel and
configuration, (as a kernel-level developer) I conducted a full kernel
configuration audit on x86-64 and found some gotchas. This is inline
with keeping Karmic the best ever Ubuntu release.

I've logged a bug-report at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/446480

I appreciate it's late in the release cycle and I missed doing this a
few weeks ago, but I didn't expect some key config options (eg PAT and
MCE support) to be disabled (reasons?). I did expect some debug config
options hanging over, listed, and have found other driver-specific
debug options which are likely overlooked being enabled, and a bunch
of missing functional options, perhaps from moving the configuration
from a previous kernel.

Hope there is still window to act on this!

Many thanks,
  Daniel
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Daniel J Blueman