On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On 3/29/06, Eric Persson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I hope I'm not totally wrong here, but I figured this would be a good
> > place to start, the kernel-config list seems a bit dead.
> >
> > I've been thinking about creating a community-driven .config repository,
> > since I havent found any good place for this sort of information.
> > I would see it as a place for people to contribute .configs for various
> > hardware/platforms and keep them updated and current with the kernel
> > releases.
> >
> > Perhaps this exist(i havent found any easily), or is considered a bad
> > idea(please tell me), or is actually a good idea.
> >
>
> For some users being able to grab a pre-made .config may be valuable,
> but for most people I doubt it will be very useful. Peoples hardware
> differ a lot, so a "best" config is always going to be one that you
> tweak personally to match your system. If you don't want to do that
> you are probably just going to use a generic distro kernel anyway (or
> you could use the .config of the distro kernel with make oldconfig
> when building a new kernel).
>
> Maybe it's a good idea, dunno, but I don't really think so.
Yes, I save the configs for every kernel that I install, so I could
post those, but I don't see the usefulness of this idea.
--
~Randy
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