On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunder...@bigfoot.com> wrote: > > Perhaps you can enlighten me on an issue: Why don't we simply enable all > modules? One would think that if there's a driver somewhere, it would > actually be useful to someone, as opposed to one user having to dig through > for each board in existence and file bugs to enable kernel support.
I'm definitely not the right person to answer this. However here's my thought: - First, it's not debian issue, even upstream kernel has different defconfig for each arch/platform. - Strip some unnecessary module can save space, both for the box to install the kernel, and for the Debian archive. - Even for the reasons above, there's still room to improve: we may have a mechanism to report newly appended modules when new kernel get release, and debian kernel maintainer of each arch/flavour can review this list, and then judge whether to include them. If you really want to discuss this, I suggest you to start a new thread in debian-ker...@lists.debian.org It's not a issue that one bug ticket can resolve. We need more discussion that all kernel maintainers have census. Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo PGP/GPG: 17B3ACB1
