Re: Automatic Configuration of a Kernel

From: Lee Revell (rlrevell_at_joe-job.com)
Date: 09/15/05

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    To: David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:04:03 -0400

    On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 19:03 -0700, David Lang wrote:
    > another advantage of having an auto-config for the kernel is that people
    > who are experimenting may have the auto-config find hardware that they
    > didn't realize they had (or they didn't realize that support had been
    > added)
    >
    > I know that most of my kernels don't have support for everything the
    > motherboards have on them (mostly I don't care much about the other
    > features, but in some cases they weren't supported, or weren't worth the
    > hassle of figureing the correct config for when I started, and I've never
    > gone back to try and figure it out)

    Why does this have to be in the kernel again? Isn't this exactly what
    you get with a fully modular config and hotplug?

    Lee

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