well if you know what your doing when you are compiling your kernel, knowing meaning, knowing your system and chipsets, I know exactly what I need and dont need, what I use and dont use. IMHO guesswork with the module is bad you should know what drivers you need and what hardware you have. For me its the Reiser for FS the Tulip for the NIC my VIA chipset. the VT82C586A IDE interface. my opinion is if you have to guess about your kernel config, its time to learn about your system. Your not making a live CD kernel you are making "your" kernel.
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 16:52 +1300, Tom Eastman wrote:
> Karsten Baumgarten wrote:
>
> > I can't see why this would make things tidier. In general compiling
> > stuff as a module is useful if you want or need to have different system
> > setups without the need to switch kernels (like one kernel supports
> > wifi, the other one doesn't). Otherwise, assuming your hardware doesn't
> > change frequently, compiling *everything* as a module won't make too
> > much sense (IMHO).
>
> Well my hardware isn't too changeable, but it does change. One thing is I
> don't like the idea of all the guesswork I've done when I set up my kernel.
> Although it's just my own sense of cleanliness, but I would rather have
> modules compiled that I don't use, than stuff compiled into the kernel that
> I don't need.
>
> The other reason is that I like the idea of a flexible kernel... IMO hotplug
> is one of the coolest things to happen to linux recently, and I like the
> idea of it no longer being *my* problem to work out which bits of the
> kernel I need and don't need. You might think of it as kind of a test to
> see just how much hardware stuff I can make linux set up *for* me.
>
>
> > | What do people think? Does it seem like a good idea? Or is it just
> > | immensely stupid?
> >
> > I vote for the latter. :D
>
> Hehehe :-) Ah well, as long as I don't break my 2.6.9 bootup I can mess
> around... If I get bored with it I'll just go back to my current setup :-)
>
> Tom
>
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