Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750771AbWC3ESo (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:18:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751092AbWC3ESo (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:18:44 -0500 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:660 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750771AbWC3ESn (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:18:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:18:40 -0800 (PST) From: "Randy.Dunlap" X-X-Sender: rddunlap@shark.he.net To: Jesper Juhl cc: Eric Persson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel config repository In-Reply-To: <9a8748490603291505h19be30b0ue454437c9aa1faac@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <442A99CA.20303@persson.tm> <9a8748490603291505h19be30b0ue454437c9aa1faac@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1593 Lines: 38 On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 3/29/06, Eric Persson 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/