Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Building OpenWRT static kernels

2015-03-23 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote: you would be horrified to look under the covers of most linux based appliances, a lot of them are running a stock redhat/centos install with very little customization outside of the userspace app that they run. Gaping security holes in such a

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Building OpenWRT static kernels

2015-03-23 Thread Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE
> you would be horrified to look under the covers of most linux based > appliances, > a lot of them are running a stock redhat/centos install with very > little > customization outside of the userspace app that they run. Gaping > security holes > in such appliances are common. Yes, I agree with

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Building OpenWRT static kernels

2015-03-23 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote: Le lundi 23 mars 2015 à 16:21 +0100, Jonas Gorski a écrit : This is currently not easily possible with OpenWrt, as it contains several "out-of-tree" kernel modules, which aren't part of the kernel sources and thus can't be statically linked

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Building OpenWRT static kernels

2015-03-23 Thread Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE
Le lundi 23 mars 2015 à 16:21 +0100, Jonas Gorski a écrit : > This is currently not easily possible with OpenWrt, as it contains > several "out-of-tree" kernel modules, which aren't part of the kernel > sources and thus can't be statically linked into the kernel. For > example all wifi drivers are

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Building OpenWRT static kernels

2015-03-23 Thread Jonas Gorski
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote: > Dear all, > > I would like to discuss the ability to compile a minimal kernel with all > needed modules compiled staticly. This is for custom projects. I know > static kernels are not for mass-release as it would confuse users. >

[OpenWrt-Devel] Building OpenWRT static kernels

2015-03-23 Thread Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE
Dear all, I would like to discuss the ability to compile a minimal kernel with all needed modules compiled staticly. This is for custom projects. I know static kernels are not for mass-release as it would confuse users. Is there a way to achieve something similar to: make localyesconfig turns mo