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Message-ID: <50008DBD.2030800@hp.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:06:05 -0600 From: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@...com> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> CC: 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> Subject: Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues On 07/13/2012 02:37 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Would something like this make sense to people? I really think that > "How do I generate a kernel config file" is one of those things that > keeps normal people from compiling their own kernel. And we *want* > people to compile their own kernel so that they can help with things > like bisecting etc. The more, the merrier. > This is a great idea. 7-8 years ago I used to be able to create a minimally configured kernel from upstream and run my Debian/Ubuntu/... install with it. It got much harder in a hurry and now it takes too much work to figure out how to configure upstream kernel to make it work with distro. It is a 3-5 hour compile to start with distro config file and that is just too painful. I will help with testing configs or helping sort through the config options. -- Khalid Aziz khalid.aziz@...com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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