* Jon Pennington (jpennington@atipa.com) [20000304 02:46]:
The stock SuSE kernels are great, but a hobbiest like myself still wants to play with things, but may still not have the foggiest idea what VIA82CXXX support is for. That's where hwdetect (or the like) would come in handy; find the VIA82CXXX chipset on the motherboard, correlate it with a .config option, and offer it to the user. It's just a thought, but I figured that somebody might think the same thing ;).
That definitely sounds neat ;-) But I don't think we'll offer that. We're on
the contrary working to reduce the need for a self compiled kernel
(possibly to zero). The reason is simply that we can't support kernels with
unknown configuration (the possible number of permutations is
unsupportable).
And a number of options aren't for the faint of heart (like write access to
NTFS partitions), so even offering them would be placing a loaded gun in
their hands.
So in conclusion, I'd say this would be a fine private project but not
something we should support via YaST. Mind you, this is strictly my private
opinion (though privately I'd also like that feature :).
Philipp
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Philipp Thomas