From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758203Ab2GNJv2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2012 05:51:28 -0400 Received: from dspnet.fr ([188.165.44.67]:56616 "EHLO dspnet.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751924Ab2GNJv0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2012 05:51:26 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 407 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 05:51:26 EDT Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 11:44:34 +0200 From: Olivier Galibert To: Jesper Juhl Cc: Linus Torvalds , Dave Jones , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Ubuntu Kernel Team , Debian Kernel Team , OpenSUSE Kernel Team , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues Message-ID: <20120714094434.GB19640@dspnet.fr> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:33:51AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > How about we start cutting down on the options and start saying "a Linux > system will provide feature x and y - always ...". > Stuff like (and I'm just pulling random stuff out here) - ASLR, seccomp, > 250HZ minimum etc etc.. We could cut the KConfig options down to 10% of > what they are now if we just made a few (hard) choices about some things > that would always be there that everyone could count on. If people want > to deviate from the default minimum, sure, let them, but put it under > *custom*, *embedded*, *specialized distro*, *you know what you are doing* > menu options. In number of options the "infrastructure" options are at most 20% of the total. The other 80% are individual drivers, hardware (like network cards, serial devices, usb devices, video...) or software (crypto algorithms, partition formats, codepages, filesystems...). You're going to have a hard time slashing 90% of that. OG.