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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> all i'm suggesting is to please expose existing debug capabilities in 
> the .config space, so that it can be tested in automated setups.
> 

Boot configurations, too, can be tested in automated setups, and there 
is benefit to being able to do that without compilation.  However, what 
we'd need is a machine-readable description that one can select a 
configuration from.

	-hpa