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From: Stephen Clark <sclark46@earthlink.net>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Automatic config file generator
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:40:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E50796.1010502@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081002170210.GB7998@localhost>

Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> [Stephen Clark - Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 12:53:37PM -0400]
>> Hello List,
>>
>> Is there a utility that will examine your system and generate a tailored 
>> config file so I don't have to compile a zillion modules.
>>
>> Currently when I want to build the latest kernel I take the config file from
>> my distro, (fedora), but it has every module in the world. So on my
>> 1.8ghz core 2 duo laptop it takes about 30 min to build a new kernel.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve
>> -- 
>>
>> "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety,
>> deserve neither liberty nor safety."  (Ben Franklin)
>>
>> "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty
>> decreases."  (Thomas Jefferson)
>>
>>
> 
> You could be interested by this thread
> 
> 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/16/290
> 
> 		- Cyrill -
> 
Thanks,

Somehow I missed that thread.

Steve

-- 

"They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety."  (Ben Franklin)

"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty
decreases."  (Thomas Jefferson)



  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-02 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-02 16:53 Automatic config file generator Stephen Clark
2008-10-02 17:02 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-10-02 17:40   ` Stephen Clark [this message]
2008-10-02 17:35 ` Alexey Dobriyan

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