On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 01:37:41PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
The point I'm slowly getting to is that I would actually love to have *distro* Kconfig-files, where the distribution would be able to say "These are the minimums I *require* to work".
As long as you don't mind these being added after the fact, I suppose it would be workable. The reason I say that is sometimes, it even catches *us* by surprise. We recently found out our virtualisation guys started using sch_htb for example, and we inadvertantly broke it when we moved its module to a 'not always installed' kernel subpackage. (and before that, 9PFS..) People don't tell us anything, but somehow expect things to keep working.
In addition to the "minimal distro settings", we might also have a few "common platform" settings, so that you could basically do a "hey, I have a modern PC laptop, make it pick the obvious stuff that a normal person needs, like USB storage, FAT/VFAT support, the core power management etc".
I wish defconfig was actually something useful like this, instead of.. what the hell is it exactly ? No-one even seems to agree, other than "random selection of options, many of which were removed n years ago" Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org