On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 01:37:41PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The point I'm slowly getting to is that I would actually love to have
> *distro* Kconfig-files, where the distribution would be able to say
> "These are the minimums I *require* to work".
As long as you don't mind these being added after the fact, I suppose
it would be workable. The reason I say that is sometimes, it even catches *us*
by surprise. We recently found out our virtualisation guys started
using sch_htb for example, and we inadvertantly broke it when we moved
its module to a 'not always installed' kernel subpackage. (and before that,
9PFS..)
People don't tell us anything, but somehow expect things to keep working.
> In addition to the "minimal distro settings", we might also have a few
> "common platform" settings, so that you could basically do a "hey, I
> have a modern PC laptop, make it pick the obvious stuff that a normal
> person needs, like USB storage, FAT/VFAT support, the core power
> management etc".
I wish defconfig was actually something useful like this, instead of..
what the hell is it exactly ? No-one even seems to agree, other than
"random selection of options, many of which were removed n years ago"
Dave
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