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diff --git a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
index 8916ca48bc9..2b7e32dfe00 100644
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@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ kernel patches.
2b: Passes allnoconfig, allmodconfig
+2c: Builds successfully when using O=builddir
+
3: Builds on multiple CPU architectures by using local cross-compile tools
or some other build farm.
@@ -51,8 +53,8 @@ kernel patches.
12: Has been tested with CONFIG_PREEMPT, CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT,
CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES,
- CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK, CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP all simultaneously
- enabled.
+ CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK, CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP, CONFIG_PROVE_RCU
+ and CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD all simultaneously enabled.
13: Has been build- and runtime tested with and without CONFIG_SMP and
CONFIG_PREEMPT.
@@ -95,3 +97,13 @@ kernel patches.
25: If any ioctl's are added by the patch, then also update
Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt.
+
+26: If your modified source code depends on or uses any of the kernel
+ APIs or features that are related to the following kconfig symbols,
+ then test multiple builds with the related kconfig symbols disabled
+ and/or =m (if that option is available) [not all of these at the
+ same time, just various/random combinations of them]:
+
+ CONFIG_SMP, CONFIG_SYSFS, CONFIG_PROC_FS, CONFIG_INPUT, CONFIG_PCI,
+ CONFIG_BLOCK, CONFIG_PM, CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ,
+ CONFIG_NET, CONFIG_INET=n (but latter with CONFIG_NET=y)