Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935617AbXJPULS (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:11:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760613AbXJPULD (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:11:03 -0400 Received: from mga10.intel.com ([192.55.52.92]:9932 "EHLO fmsmga102.fm.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759551AbXJPULB (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:11:01 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,284,1188802800"; d="scan'208";a="347913679" Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:10:22 -0700 From: Mark Gross To: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students Message-ID: <20071016201022.GC23157@linux.intel.com> Reply-To: mgross@linux.intel.com References: <20071014190128.6e3cdb44@bree.surriel.com> <20071015170411.GB18550@linux.intel.com> <20071015191732.GA1841@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071015191732.GA1841@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1372 Lines: 32 On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:17:32PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:04:11AM -0700, Mark Gross wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 07:01:28PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects > > > > Is there already a make config option that will do a good job at setting > > a default .config file based on what is already running on a system? > > > > I get tiered of trimming down my .config for my laptop build so it takes > > less than 30min to build a kernel. > > Ehh? You do it once, then leave it aside or in /proc/config.gz, on new > kernel copy it back, "make oldconfig", answer several questions and here > we go. yeah I know that. Its a lot more than a few questions, and as we are talking about a linear search for a fully tweaked .config where each pass takes 30 min to know if things work this isn't how I want to spend my time. --mgross > > > Bonus credit to additional "expert" options (like those powertop puts > > out) for target uses, laptop, HPC, home file share, embedded targets.... > > > > Oh, and lets make the expert configs easily extensible. - 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/