Re: kernel autoconfig option?

["Mark Shelby" <mshelby1@gmail.com>]

That's an excellent idea. I am still thinking along the lines of
"idiot proof simplicity." It would be nice to have a configure script
that scanned your system board, sound card/chip various input ports,
etc, and went ahead and preselected those to build when you type
"make.

If you could combine this with the make "allmodconfig" command in a
user friendly interface, I think you'd really be on to something!
--as long as it's still configurable after the preselected choices are
made.


On 7/12/07, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> wrote:
>
> On Jul 12 2007 10:18, Mark Shelby wrote:
> >
> > Would it be possible to design a program to scan your existing system
> > hardware and pre-select your onboard hardware options within the
> > kernel config menus?
>
> > Am I just crazy, or wouldn't this idea mke a lot of sense? Wouldn't it
> > pretty much make the kernel "idiot proof" when installing from source?
>
> Why not just use `make allmodconfig`? If you happen to suddenly have a new
> device you never had before (and I can assure you: this happens!), you
> already have all modules.
>
>
>
>        Jan
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