diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
index dbf746b70553ec357827aeb885031aa317a7f465..3f429ed8b3b885a5a0af7d22d26c05cd9eac49e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
@@ -98,6 +98,33 @@ You can set this to the integer value used to seed the RNG, if you want
 to somehow debug the behaviour of the kconfig parser/frontends.
 If not set, the current time will be used.
 
+KCONFIG_PROBABILITY
+--------------------------------------------------
+This variable can be used to skew the probabilities. This variable can
+be unset or empty, or set to three different formats:
+	KCONFIG_PROBABILITY     y:n split           y:m:n split
+	-----------------------------------------------------------------
+	unset or empty          50  : 50            33  : 33  : 34
+	N                        N  : 100-N         N/2 : N/2 : 100-N
+    [1] N:M                     N+M : 100-(N+M)      N  :  M  : 100-(N+M)
+    [2] N:M:L                    N  : 100-N          M  :  L  : 100-(M+L)
+
+where N, M and L are integers (in base 10) in the range [0,100], and so
+that:
+    [1] N+M is in the range [0,100]
+    [2] M+L is in the range [0,100]
+
+Examples:
+	KCONFIG_PROBABILITY=10
+		10% of booleans will be set to 'y', 90% to 'n'
+		5% of tristates will be set to 'y', 5% to 'm', 90% to 'n'
+	KCONFIG_PROBABILITY=15:25
+		40% of booleans will be set to 'y', 60% to 'n'
+		15% of tristates will be set to 'y', 25% to 'm', 60% to 'n'
+	KCONFIG_PROBABILITY=10:15:15
+		10% of booleans will be set to 'y', 90% to 'n'
+		15% of tristates will be set to 'y', 15% to 'm', 70% to 'n'
+
 ______________________________________________________________________
 Environment variables for 'silentoldconfig'
 
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
index 89274809a82677a792d262cd52533c808308560a..fc45fc13787555eb00dadb18e78a203a43b61583 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
@@ -1107,7 +1107,51 @@ static void set_all_choice_values(struct symbol *csym)
 void conf_set_all_new_symbols(enum conf_def_mode mode)
 {
 	struct symbol *sym, *csym;
-	int i, cnt;
+	int i, cnt, pby, pty, ptm;	/* pby: probability of boolean  = y
+					 * pty: probability of tristate = y
+					 * ptm: probability of tristate = m
+					 */
+
+	pby = 50; pty = ptm = 33; /* can't go as the default in switch-case
+				   * below, otherwise gcc whines about
+				   * -Wmaybe-uninitialized */
+	if (mode == def_random) {
+		int n, p[3];
+		char *env = getenv("KCONFIG_PROBABILITY");
+		n = 0;
+		while( env && *env ) {
+			char *endp;
+			int tmp = strtol( env, &endp, 10 );
+			if( tmp >= 0 && tmp <= 100 ) {
+				p[n++] = tmp;
+			} else {
+				errno = ERANGE;
+				perror( "KCONFIG_PROBABILITY" );
+				exit( 1 );
+			}
+			env = (*endp == ':') ? endp+1 : endp;
+			if( n >=3 ) {
+				break;
+			}
+		}
+		switch( n ) {
+		case 1:
+			pby = p[0]; ptm = pby/2; pty = pby-ptm;
+			break;
+		case 2:
+			pty = p[0]; ptm = p[1]; pby = pty + ptm;
+			break;
+		case 3:
+			pby = p[0]; pty = p[1]; ptm = p[2];
+			break;
+		}
+
+		if( pty+ptm > 100 ) {
+			errno = ERANGE;
+			perror( "KCONFIG_PROBABILITY" );
+			exit( 1 );
+		}
+	}
 
 	for_all_symbols(i, sym) {
 		if (sym_has_value(sym) || (sym->flags & SYMBOL_VALID))
@@ -1126,8 +1170,15 @@ void conf_set_all_new_symbols(enum conf_def_mode mode)
 				sym->def[S_DEF_USER].tri = no;
 				break;
 			case def_random:
-				cnt = sym->type == S_TRISTATE ? 3 : 2;
-				sym->def[S_DEF_USER].tri = (tristate)(rand() % cnt);
+				sym->def[S_DEF_USER].tri = no;
+				cnt = rand() % 100;
+				if (sym->type == S_TRISTATE) {
+					if (cnt < pty)
+						sym->def[S_DEF_USER].tri = yes;
+					else if (cnt < (pty+ptm))
+						sym->def[S_DEF_USER].tri = mod;
+				} else if (cnt < pby)
+					sym->def[S_DEF_USER].tri = yes;
 				break;
 			default:
 				continue;