Breaking up kernel config files (GENERIC)

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> At 2:24 AM -0400 10/25/04, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
>
> So, I would expect "categories" to only handle simple cases like that,
> and we would leave the lines for things like 'da' and 'scbus' just the
> way they currently are.
>
> Right now I'm just tossing out some ideas of what we'd really like to
> see.  I think that if all we do is split up all the per-architecture
> GENERIC kernels into smaller files, then we will end up creating *more*
> work for most people who want to create a smaller kernel config. I
> suspect we can come up with something better than that.

What I would really like to see is a mechanism for recognizing hardware 
(arch, cpu family, scsi, ide, sound, firewire and net) that is currently 
in the system and generating a barebones configuration file with just the 
results.

What happens when this "auto-probing" doesn't recognize the hardware that 
you have? Well, what are you forced to do now? :-)

Regards,
Andy

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