From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756254Ab2GMVGO (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:06:14 -0400 Received: from g1t0027.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.34]:43047 "EHLO g1t0027.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754160Ab2GMVGN (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:06:13 -0400 Message-ID: <50008DBD.2030800@hp.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:06:05 -0600 From: Khalid Aziz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: 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 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.aziz@hp.com