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From: "Ghozlane Toumi" <gtoumi@professo.net>
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Subject: Re: obsolete code must die
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:06:18 +0200
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: obsolete code must die


> > Would it make sense to create some sort of 'make config' script that
> > determines what you want in your kernel and then downloads only those
> > components? After all, with the constant release of new hardware, isn't
a
> > 50MB kernel release not too far away? 100MB?
>
> This should be a FAQ entry.

actually, it *is* a FAQ entry ...
http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s7-7

ghoz