On Wed, Dec 25, 2013, at 08:25 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > prompted by the quest of a smaller kernel on my old OmniBook 800 (for > which memory modules are harder to find than a standard laptop), I tried > my luck with dmassage against a stock GENERIC 5.4 kernel conf. > > I used the generated config fil, except that I enabled a couple of more > PCMCIA drivers, which are of course all disabled except the currently > inserted card.
What I found is as of a few versions ago, I forget exactly when, dmassage by itself will generate a busted kernel config now. Basically, to have a working kernel you need to compile in certain drivers, even if they not show up in the dmesg. Unfortunately I've forgotten which ones they were and I don't have a system I can experiment on... -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com
