From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760900AbXGLPCc (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:02:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763087AbXGLPCS (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:02:18 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.224]:53157 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762290AbXGLPCR (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:02:17 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=H3WZfomKTFUrpOj709WwzjZlSCQZ422uJiKwT43u1+QbGz/lFVzuvhld/HRMKnot7s1y6iHvttNEHnQAfxfCe90wsn96j8qhx82GLpkC0kyiGIeKdX4PIc/FYBZbuxhhq4W/a+fo9kyWmVxUc8Jg6/sxM6E4LNFmnWxIfODzCWA= Message-ID: <78ecab220707120802p11ab3e1fye497f4107fe18c1d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:02:15 -0400 From: "Mark Shelby" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel autoconfig option? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <78ecab220707120718q7cfcff43u66f80711c7ec1005@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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 > -- >