linux-kernel - Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

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Date:	Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:12:05 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
	"Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>,
	Ubuntu Kernel Team <kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com>,
	Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org>,
	OpenSUSE Kernel Team <opensuse-kernel@...nsuse.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	Asias He <asias.hejun@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for
 distro issues

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:41:21PM +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Myklebust, Trond
>> <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com> wrote:
>> > We could at least make selection of a minimal set of drivers for the
>> > more common virtualised platforms a lot easier.
>> > Right now, you need to hunt through 30+ different menus in order to find
>> > what you need to run in a basic KVM virtual machine...
>>
>> Yes, every time I build a kernel to be used on KVM I forget something. :-\
>>
>> We could introduce a section in Kconfig which contains selections for
>> common use cases.
>> E.g. as Linus requested for minimal distro requirements but also
>> selections for various common
>> guest configurations.
>
> +1.
>
> Same experience with building a kvm kernel so I couldn't agree more.

We have "make kvmconfig" in the KVM tool tree that pretty much does
that automatically. There's nothing tools/kvm specific about it so I
guess you could merge that separately.

                        Pekka
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