Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (65 mails)

[Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>]

On 20.1.2010 15:47, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 03:33:21PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > in the past, the kernel-source package used to install the config files
> > for it's architecture to
> > /usr/src/linux-obj/$arch/$flavor/.config
> > Now kernel-source is noarch and the the files below /usr/src/linux-obj/
> > are packaged in kernel-$flavor-devel. This works fine for KMPs, but it's
> > unintuitive for people who install the kernel-source package and want to
> > manually recompile their kernel - they have to install an additional
> > -devel package for just the single .config file. Therefore I was
> > thinking about adding the .config files to kernel-source, e.g.
> >
> > /usr/src/linux/config/$arch/$flavor
> >
> > like the config/ subdir in git (and hope that there won't appear a
> > 'config' directory in the upstream kernel). Or maybe place the configs
> > next to the upstream defconfigs:
> >
> > /usr/src/linux/arch/$arch/configs/suse_$flavor_defconfig
> >
> > Then it would be possible to say
> > make O=... suse_$flavor_defconfig
> > (it would not be that easy actually, because x86 and x86_64 share the
> > same directory).
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> What's wrong with the config in /proc/config.gz that is on all systems?
> That doesn't require a new package to be installed :)

That limits you to the kernel version and flavor you are running :).

Michal
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