Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration fordistro issues

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:41:21PM +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Myklebust, Trond
> <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We could at least make selection of a minimal set of drivers for the
> > more common virtualised platforms a lot easier.
> > Right now, you need to hunt through 30+ different menus in order to find
> > what you need to run in a basic KVM virtual machine...
> 
> Yes, every time I build a kernel to be used on KVM I forget something. :-\
> 
> We could introduce a section in Kconfig which contains selections for
> common use cases.
> E.g. as Linus requested for minimal distro requirements but also
> selections for various common
> guest configurations.

+1.

Same experience with building a kvm kernel so I couldn't agree more.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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