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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:05:46 +0200
From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: "Eric Persson" <eric@persson.tm>
Subject: Re: kernel config repository
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On 3/29/06, Eric Persson <eric@persson.tm> 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.


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