Re: Automatic Configuration of a Kernel

Lee Revell
2005-09-15T03:04:07Z

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 19:03 -0700, David Lang wrote:
> another advantage of having an auto-config for the kernel is that people
> who are experimenting may have the auto-config find hardware that they
> didn't realize they had (or they didn't realize that support had been
> added)
>
> I know that most of my kernels don't have support for everything the
> motherboards have on them (mostly I don't care much about the other
> features, but in some cases they weren't supported, or weren't worth the
> hassle of figureing the correct config for when I started, and I've never
> gone back to try and figure it out)

Why does this have to be in the kernel again? Isn't this exactly what
you get with a fully modular config and hotplug?

Lee