On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 11:42 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 06:25:00PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > > > The best would be to avoid using defaults completely, unless the resulting > > kernel is non-functional (e.g. it doesn't compile or boot). > > So far it's still the responsibility of the user to explicitly turn > > everything on he needs (at least until we have a functional autoconfig). > > BTW distros are not the only users, from them I would expect how to > > configure a kernel. > > Actually, this sounds pretty sane and IMHO is somehow the biggest common > denominator concerning linux users and their kernel configuration > recreational activities :); but seriously, going all over the menus of Kbuild > and turning everything off is a lot of work compared to turning on the > several things I need on my system. "default m" is also not a good thing > since compiling of unnecessary modules is simply dumb for a system > that's just not going to use them. Not to mention the bugs you get for free while you don't even (actively) use the offending module/piece of code.
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