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.a...@hp.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
