From: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@hp.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>,
Ubuntu Kernel Team <kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com>,
Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>,
OpenSUSE Kernel Team <opensuse-kernel@opensuse.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:06:05 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50008DBD.2030800@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxw8pY1KMjobp=dKJd+g4B9KGhe4+fsfSPA3ofCGVhkPQ@mail.gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-13 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-13 20:37 [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues Linus Torvalds
2012-07-13 20:54 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-07-13 21:41 ` [opensuse-kernel] " richard -rw- weinberger
2012-07-14 10:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-14 12:12 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-07-14 12:43 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-07-14 17:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-14 18:51 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-07-14 19:51 ` david
2012-07-19 14:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-19 16:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-19 17:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-19 17:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-19 17:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-19 18:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-19 17:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-19 17:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-19 18:42 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-07-15 10:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-15 10:17 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-07-15 21:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-15 21:48 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-07-15 22:09 ` david
2012-07-15 22:22 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-07-15 23:06 ` david
2012-07-16 8:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-16 16:43 ` david
2012-07-16 16:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-16 19:26 ` david
2012-07-16 20:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-16 22:21 ` david
2012-07-18 7:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-07-18 8:42 ` david
2012-07-18 9:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-07-17 8:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-07-19 16:01 ` Michal Marek
2012-07-16 17:01 ` Alan Cox
2012-07-16 17:05 ` david
2012-07-13 21:02 ` Dave Jones
2012-07-13 21:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-13 22:26 ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-19 15:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-19 15:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-19 16:12 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-19 15:45 ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-19 16:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-19 17:19 ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-19 17:30 ` Alan Cox
2012-07-19 17:38 ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-19 21:13 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-20 2:44 ` david
2012-07-19 17:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-19 17:41 ` Alan Cox
2012-07-19 17:56 ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-19 18:13 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-19 18:36 ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-19 21:04 ` david
2012-07-19 22:35 ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-19 22:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-21 20:47 ` valdis.kletnieks
2012-07-19 18:20 ` Paul Bolle
2012-07-19 18:22 ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-19 18:49 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-07-19 18:55 ` Paul Bolle
2012-07-19 21:30 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-07-13 21:29 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-07-13 21:50 ` Paul Bolle
2012-07-13 21:55 ` Dave Jones
2012-07-13 22:11 ` Tony Luck
2012-07-13 22:20 ` Paul Bolle
2012-07-13 23:07 ` Frank Rowand
2012-07-13 21:06 ` Khalid Aziz [this message]
2012-07-13 21:17 ` Casey Schaufler
2012-07-13 21:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-13 22:13 ` david
2012-07-13 21:59 ` Hans de Bruin
2012-07-13 22:33 ` Jesper Juhl
2012-07-13 22:46 ` david
2012-07-14 9:44 ` Olivier Galibert
2012-07-14 4:18 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-14 12:35 ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-19 1:48 ` Steven Yong
2012-07-20 9:47 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-07-20 10:26 ` Sam Ravnborg
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2012-07-18 9:55 Tom Gundersen
2012-07-22 20:10 ` David Greaves
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